Harpoon

Museum number:
2-3043
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.106
Description:
Harpoon with wood shaft, red painted. Ivory foreshaft, barbed ivory point and sinew plaited line, feathers are attached near end of shaft.
Donor:
Ernest Moses
Collection place:
Kodiak Island, Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Kodiak district; Kodiak Island
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo and Kodiak Eskimo
Collector:
Ernest Moses
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Harpoons and Plaited weaving
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 132 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: See: Notes on Koniag Material Culture, R.F. Heizer; Anthro Papers, Univ. Alaska, vol. I, no. 1, pp. 11-24. (p.22, pl. 1c-h).
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-3043, described as Harpoon with wood shaft, red painted. Ivory foreshaft, barbed ivory point and sinew plaited line, feathers are attached near end of shaft.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-3043, described as Harpoon with wood shaft, red painted. Ivory foreshaft, barbed ivory point and sinew plaited line, feathers are attached near end of shaft.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-3043, described as Harpoon with wood shaft, red painted. Ivory foreshaft, barbed ivory point and sinew plaited line, feathers are attached near end of shaft.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-3043, described as Harpoon with wood shaft, red painted. Ivory foreshaft, barbed ivory point and sinew plaited line, feathers are attached near end of shaft.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-3043, described as Harpoon with wood shaft, red painted. Ivory foreshaft, barbed ivory point and sinew plaited line, feathers are attached near end of shaft.

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