Rope
- Museum number:
- 2-6643
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020006643
- 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:
- height 0.2 centimeters, width 0.8 centimeters, and length 2.14 meters
- 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:
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