With bone foreshaft; bone barbed point with 3 barbs on one side only, attached by plaited sinew line with remnants of red and blue yarn; red-stained wood mainshaft, damaged fletching. Bone foreshaft with red-stained longitudinal grooves and whaletooth inlay.
Donor:
Ellinor C. Davidson and George Davidson
Collection place:
Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Aleutian Islands
Culture or time period:
Aleut
Collector:
George Davidson
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Arrows (projectiles)
Accession date:
1945
Context of use:
Harpoon arrow. For hunting sea otter. Found in quiver 2-19433.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 86.8 centimeters
Comment:
Ms. Roza Liapunova identified arrow on basis of "whale tooth insets on foreshaft, and lines." Found in quiver 2-19433.