Foreshaft
- Museum number:
- 2-4347
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020004347
- Alternate number:
- x-493 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Stone point.
- 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
- Materials:
- Sinew (material) and Slate (rock)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Foreshafts (arrow components)
- Function:
- 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- Hand spear. For large seal and beluga spear.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 32 centimeters
- Comment:
- Second Orig. No.: Neumann #344.
- Legacy documentation:
-