Harpoons

Museum number:

2-36602a-f

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm210236602a@2df

Accession number:

Acc.1398

Description:

Red or brown shafts with bone foreshafts and detachable barbed bone points.

Donor:

Douglas D. Stafford and Mrs. Douglas D. Stafford

Collection place:

Alaska

Verbatim coll. place:

Alaska

Culture or time period:

Kodiak Eskimo

Collector:

Christian A. Knudsen

Collection date:

1900-1905

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Harpoons

Accession date:

1961

Department:

Native US and Canada (except California)

Dimensions:

(c)— 36 inches, (f)— length 0.25 inches, (b)— length 35.5 inches, (a)— length 36 inches, (d)— length 35 inches, and (e)— length 33.75 inches

Loans:

S1963-1964 #32: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert Fleming Heizer (October 28, 1963–October 30, 1963), S1965-1966 #30: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert Fleming Heizer (November 1, 1965–November 1, 1965), S1965-1966 #88: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 1, 1966–June 1, 1966), S1965-1966 #92: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert F. G. Spier (June 16, 1966–July 29, 1966), S1966-1967 #102: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Nelson Anderson (May 3, 1967–May 3, 1967), S1966-1967 #106: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (May 9, 1967–May 9, 1967), S1967-1968 #61: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Nelson Anderson (November 17, 1967–November 17, 1967), and S1967-1968 #92: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (February 15, 1968–February 15, 1968)

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