Foreshaft

Museum number:
2-1939
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Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Lance or spear foreshaft, wood with bone point.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Lower Yukon, Yukon, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Lower Yukon
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
ca. 1895
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Foreshafts (arrow components)
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Context of use:
Probably for seals.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 25.8 centimeters
Loans:
S1945-1946 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (March 11, 1946–October 28, 1955) and S1967-1968 #128: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (April 24, 1968–June 7, 1968)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Foreshaft, accession number 2-1939, described as Lance or spear foreshaft, wood with bone point.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Foreshaft, accession number 2-1939, described as Lance or spear foreshaft, wood with bone point.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Foreshaft, accession number 2-1939, described as Lance or spear foreshaft, wood with bone point.

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