Projectile point

Museum number:
2-6593
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Alternate number:
x-2786 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Compound type, barbed bone foreshaft, steel point. Antler, carved; triangular copper blade riveted into the distal slot with a large barb perpendicular to the blade; tang made of bone & inserted into body, tapered for insertion into wooden shaft. Used for hunting large land game. Native name: cingileq.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Bering Sea, Western Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
NW Alaska; Bering Sea
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Materials:
Bone (material) and Copper (metal)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Projectile points
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
for large land game
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
shaft— width 2.5 centimeters, blade— length 5 centimeters, blade— height 0.05 centimeters, blade— width 3 centimeters, shaft— height 1.8 centimeters, whole— length 19 centimeters, and shaft— length 17 centimeters
Comment:
Neg. number: ACC31-02 p. 89 Graburn
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Projectile point, accession number 2-6593, described as Compound type, barbed bone foreshaft, steel point. Antler, carved; triangular copper blade riveted into the distal slot with a large barb perpendicular to the blade; tang made of bone & inserted into body, tapered for insertion into wooden shaft. Used for hunting large land game. Native name: cingileq.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Projectile point, accession number 2-6593, described as Compound type, barbed bone foreshaft, steel point. Antler, carved; triangular copper blade riveted into the distal slot with a large barb perpendicular to the blade; tang made of bone & inserted into body, tapered for insertion into wooden shaft. Used for hunting large land game. Native name: cingileq.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Projectile point, accession number 2-6593, described as Compound type, barbed bone foreshaft, steel point. Antler, carved; triangular copper blade riveted into the distal slot with a large barb perpendicular to the blade; tang made of bone & inserted into body, tapered for insertion into wooden shaft. Used for hunting large land game. Native name: cingileq.

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