Harpoon dart with bone foreshaft, point barbed on two sides, feathered. NOTE: sinew which attaches point to shaft broken, tied in place in 1990.
Donor:
Ellinor C. Davidson and George Davidson
Collection place:
Point Barrow, North Slope Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Point Barrow
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Accession date:
1945
Context of use:
Used with spear thrower in seal hunting
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 133 centimeters
Loans:
S1965-1966 #88: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 1, 1966–June 1, 1966), S1965-1966 #92: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert F. G. Spier (June 16, 1966–July 29, 1966), S1966-1967 #102: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Nelson Anderson (May 3, 1967–May 3, 1967), S1966-1967 #106: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (May 9, 1967–May 9, 1967), S1967-1968 #61: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Nelson Anderson (November 17, 1967–November 17, 1967), and S1991-1992 #32: The Exploratorium (June 22, 1992–January 11, 1993)