(a) Kayak, wood frame with rawhide cover. (b) Spear with float line and board attached with zoomorphic ivory foreshaft. (c) Spear with float line and board attached with ivory foreshaft and point with metal tip. (d, e) Two spears with ivory foreshafts and points. (f) Spear with metal point missing. (g) Spear with metal point; wood on fixtures painted red.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Norton Sound, Nome Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Norton Sound Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
ca. 1895
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Kayaks and Models (concepts)
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
(a)— length 69 centimeters
Comment:
References: cf. Adney and Chapelle, p. 198, fig. 182, for Norton Sound kayaks.
Loans:
S1967-1968 #25 [formerly I-54-B]: University of California, Riverside/John F. Goins (July 1, 1954–present)