Spear-thrower

Museum number:
2-7295
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.36
Description:
Spruce wood, ivory hook.
Donor:
Darius Ogden Mills and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Kotzebue Sound, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Kotzebue Sound
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Atlatls
Accession date:
January 22, 1901
Context of use:
Throwing stick.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 38.2 centimeters
Loans:
S1961-1962 #56: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (March 27, 1962–March 27, 1962), S1963-1964 #25: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Michael J. Harner (October 9, 1963–October 9, 1967), S1963-1964 #32: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert Fleming Heizer (October 28, 1963–October 30, 1963), S1964-1965 #34b: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 25, 1964–March 25, 1966), S1964-1965 #72: Heard Museum (March 25, 1965–September 24, 1965), S1965-1966 #30: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert Fleming Heizer (November 1, 1965–November 1, 1965), S1966-1967 #106: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (May 9, 1967–May 9, 1967), and S1971-1972 #4: Department of Anthropology (Stanford Univ.)/Robert L. Hoover (July 12, 1971–July 26, 1971)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Spear-thrower, accession number 2-7295, described as Spruce wood, ivory hook.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Spear-thrower, accession number 2-7295, described as Spruce wood, ivory hook.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear-thrower, accession number 2-7295, described as Spruce wood, ivory hook.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear-thrower, accession number 2-7295, described as Spruce wood, ivory hook.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear-thrower, accession number 2-7295, described as Spruce wood, ivory hook.

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