Harpoon

Museum number:
2-6401
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
x-2594 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Feathered; bone point bilaterally barbed, attached to Y-shaped leather thong tied to the shaft at 25 & 88 cm from tip of socket; bone socket set into distal end of shaft, wound with sinew thread which extends to the next attachment of the dart line; on proximal end, two black feathers are partially lost, attached to shaft, circular wooden shaft painted red and black. Yup'ik name: nagiiquyaq.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
St. Michael, St. Michael Island, Nome Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; St. Michael
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Rudolph Neumann
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Feather (material), Feather (material) (black), Leather, Paint (coating) (red; black), and Sinew (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Harpoons
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Seal spear.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
point— width 1.2 centimeters, point— length 8 centimeters, point— height 1 centimeters, socket— length 11 centimeters, shaft— diameter 1.2 centimeters, shaft— diameter 1.5 centimeters, socket— diameter 2 centimeters, and whole— length 135 centimeters
Comment:
Neg. number: ACC41-34 p. 109 Graburn
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6401, described as Feathered; bone point bilaterally barbed, attached to Y-shaped leather thong tied to the shaft at 25 & 88 cm from tip of socket; bone socket set into distal end of shaft, wound with sinew thread which extends to the next attachment of the dart line; on proximal end, two black feathers are partially lost, attached to shaft, circular wooden shaft painted red and black. Yup'ik name: nagiiquyaq.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6401, described as Feathered; bone point bilaterally barbed, attached to Y-shaped leather thong tied to the shaft at 25 & 88 cm from tip of socket; bone socket set into distal end of shaft, wound with sinew thread which extends to the next attachment of the dart line; on proximal end, two black feathers are partially lost, attached to shaft, circular wooden shaft painted red and black. Yup'ik name: nagiiquyaq.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6401, described as Feathered; bone point bilaterally barbed, attached to Y-shaped leather thong tied to the shaft at 25 & 88 cm from tip of socket; bone socket set into distal end of shaft, wound with sinew thread which extends to the next attachment of the dart line; on proximal end, two black feathers are partially lost, attached to shaft, circular wooden shaft painted red and black. Yup'ik name: nagiiquyaq.

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