Rope

Museum number:
2-6643
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
x-2836 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Braided sinew, ornamented with red, white and blue yarn. Looped to attach dart head.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Aleut
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1898
Materials:
Sinew (material) and Yarn (red; white; blue)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Ropework (genre by technique) and Ropework (visual works)
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing and 1.9 Multiple Utility
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
For hunting sea mammals.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 2.14 meters, height 0.2 centimeters, and width 0.8 centimeters
Comment:
Neg. number: ACC30-02 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, 112. Vol. 21. Univ of California Press, 1996.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Rope, accession number 2-6643, described as Braided sinew, ornamented with red, white and blue yarn. Looped to attach dart head.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Rope, accession number 2-6643, described as Braided sinew, ornamented with red, white and blue yarn. Looped to attach dart head.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Rope, accession number 2-6643, described as Braided sinew, ornamented with red, white and blue yarn. Looped to attach dart head.

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