Harpoon dart
- Museum number:
- 2-62069
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020062069
- Accession number:
- Acc.3458
- Description:
- Fletched, whalebone foreshaft, wood shaft. Bone point with 2 basal barbs and 1 side barb. Commercial cordage line.
- Donor:
- Ralph E. Prince
- Collection place:
- Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- unknown
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Harpoons
- Context of use:
- For harpooning seals. Used with spear thrower.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 127 centimeters and length 6.6 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-