Harpoon

Museum number:
2-5834
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
x-924 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Dart. Small bone point, bilaterally barbed, attached to a leather thong Y shaped harpoon line; ivory socket lashed with braided sinew to shaft; feathers at proximal end of shaft secured with braided sinew. Used for summer sea hunting. Native name: nagiiquyaq.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Bering Sea and North, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Bering Sea
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Bone (material), Feather (material), Ivory (material), and Sinew (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Harpoons
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
2-5829
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
socket— diameter 2 centimeters, point— width 1 centimeters, whole— weight 145 grams, point— length 7.5 centimeters, point— height 0.4 centimeters, whole— length 120 centimeters, and socket— length 8.5 centimeters
Comment:
Neg. number: ACC42-03; ACC42-04 p. 104 Graburn
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-5834, described as Dart. Small bone point, bilaterally barbed, attached to a leather thong Y shaped harpoon line; ivory socket lashed with braided sinew to shaft; feathers at proximal end of shaft secured with braided sinew. Used for summer sea hunting. Native name: nagiiquyaq.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-5834, described as Dart. Small bone point, bilaterally barbed, attached to a leather thong Y shaped harpoon line; ivory socket lashed with braided sinew to shaft; feathers at proximal end of shaft secured with braided sinew. Used for summer sea hunting. Native name: nagiiquyaq.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-5834, described as Dart. Small bone point, bilaterally barbed, attached to a leather thong Y shaped harpoon line; ivory socket lashed with braided sinew to shaft; feathers at proximal end of shaft secured with braided sinew. Used for summer sea hunting. Native name: nagiiquyaq.

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