Whale bone harpoon or spear point. Length 20⅛ inches. Tip broken off.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Tierra del Fuego, Chile
Collector:
Charles D. Voy
Materials:
Mammal bone
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Harpoons
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Department:
South America (except Ancient Peru)
Comment:
Faint ink writing on point states: "Used by the natives of the Falkland Islands." See O. T. Mason, 1902, Aboriginal American Harpoons.
Loans:
S1964-1965 #34b: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 25, 1964–March 25, 1966) and S1964-1965 #72: Heard Museum (March 25, 1965–September 24, 1965)