Spear

Museum number:
2-1799
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Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Three parallel points, center point barbed on both edges. Outer points barbed on one edge, attached to wooden shaft with sinew.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Lower Yukon, Yukon, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Lower Yukon
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
ca. 1895
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spears (weapons)
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Context of use:
Tomcod spear.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 1.42 meters
Loans:
S1961-1962 #57: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (April 3, 1962–April 3, 1962)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 2-1799, described as Three parallel points, center point barbed on both edges. Outer points barbed on one edge, attached to wooden shaft with sinew.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 2-1799, described as Three parallel points, center point barbed on both edges. Outer points barbed on one edge, attached to wooden shaft with sinew.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 2-1799, described as Three parallel points, center point barbed on both edges. Outer points barbed on one edge, attached to wooden shaft with sinew.

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