Harpoon

Museum number:
2-19318
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Accession number:
Acc.854
Description:
Harpoon with heavy ivory foreshaft, point barbed on two sides.
Donor:
Ellinor C. Davidson and George Davidson
Collection place:
Point Barrow, North Slope Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Point Barrow
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
R. A. Marr
Collection date:
August 1883
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Harpoons
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1945
Context of use:
For walrus.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Loans:
S1966-1967 #10: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (September 29, 1966–September 11, 1967)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-19318, described as Harpoon with heavy ivory foreshaft, point barbed on two sides.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-19318, described as Harpoon with heavy ivory foreshaft, point barbed on two sides.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-19318, described as Harpoon with heavy ivory foreshaft, point barbed on two sides.

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