Harpoon

Museum number:
2-6400
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Alternate number:
x-2593 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Feathered; bone point bilaterally barbed attached to a braided sinew string tied to shaft 76 cm from tip of socket; cylindrical bone socket mortised to receive the distal end of shaft; winding of twisted sinew; continuing as a retaining line wrapped on shaft; twisted sinew mortised to receive distal end of shaft; three radial feathers at proximal end tied with very thin twisted sinew; cylindrical blade. Yup'ik name: nagiiquyaq.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Norton Sound to Bristol Bay, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Bering Sea; Norton Sound
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Colorant (material) (black), Feather (material), Sinew (material), and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Harpoons
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
hunt small sea mammals with throwing board
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
socket— diameter 2.2 centimeters, whole— length 123 centimeters, point— width 1.4 centimeters, point— height 0.5 centimeters, socket— length 15 centimeters, and point— length 7.5 centimeters
Comment:
Neg. number: ACC42-04; ACC42-03 p. 109 Graburn
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6400, described as Feathered; bone point bilaterally barbed attached to a braided sinew string tied to shaft 76 cm from tip of socket; cylindrical bone socket mortised to receive the distal end of shaft; winding of twisted sinew; continuing as a retaining line wrapped on shaft; twisted sinew mortised to receive distal end of shaft; three radial feathers at proximal end tied with very thin twisted sinew; cylindrical blade. Yup'ik name: nagiiquyaq.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6400, described as Feathered; bone point bilaterally barbed attached to a braided sinew string tied to shaft 76 cm from tip of socket; cylindrical bone socket mortised to receive the distal end of shaft; winding of twisted sinew; continuing as a retaining line wrapped on shaft; twisted sinew mortised to receive distal end of shaft; three radial feathers at proximal end tied with very thin twisted sinew; cylindrical blade. Yup'ik name: nagiiquyaq.

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