Spear point

Museum number:
2-4382
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020004382
Alternate number:
x-528 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Could also be harpoon point. Barbed, antler. Ivory; hole near the tang to attach the leader; oblong in section with sharp edge; symmetrical shape with 5 barbs to maximize the anchorage into the prey. The rhomboidal section indicates that the wound was made through soft tissues. Native name: cingileq.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Bering Sea, Western Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Materials:
Ivory (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spearheads (projectile points) and Spearheads (staff weapon components)
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Used for sealing; long range weapon
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 0.9 centimeters, width 1.8 centimeters, and length 14 centimeters
Comment:
Neg. number: ACC31-11 Graburn, Nelson H.H., Molly Lee, Jean-Loup Rousselot, and Robin K. Wright. Catalogue Raisonné of the Alaska Commercial Company Collection, Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology, 111. Vol. 21. Univ of California Press, 1996.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear point, accession number 2-4382, described as Could also be harpoon point. Barbed, antler. Ivory; hole near the tang to attach the leader; oblong in section with sharp edge; symmetrical shape with 5 barbs to maximize the anchorage into the prey. The rhomboidal section indicates that the wound was made through soft tissues. Native name: cingileq.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear point, accession number 2-4382, described as Could also be harpoon point. Barbed, antler. Ivory; hole near the tang to attach the leader; oblong in section with sharp edge; symmetrical shape with 5 barbs to maximize the anchorage into the prey. The rhomboidal section indicates that the wound was made through soft tissues. Native name: cingileq.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear point, accession number 2-4382, described as Could also be harpoon point. Barbed, antler. Ivory; hole near the tang to attach the leader; oblong in section with sharp edge; symmetrical shape with 5 barbs to maximize the anchorage into the prey. The rhomboidal section indicates that the wound was made through soft tissues. Native name: cingileq.

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