Harpoon

Museum number:
2-3049
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Accession number:
Acc.106
Description:
Reddish brown painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft. Bone head with 3 unilateral barbs, plaited sinew line.
Donor:
Ernest Moses
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Kodiak Eskimo
Collector:
Ernest Moses
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Harpoons and Plaited weaving
Accession date:
1903
Context of use:
For hunting sea otters.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 81 centimeters
Loans:
S1961-1962 #86: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (May 8, 1962–May 8, 1962)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-3049, described as Reddish brown painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft. Bone head with 3 unilateral barbs, plaited sinew line.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-3049, described as Reddish brown painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft. Bone head with 3 unilateral barbs, plaited sinew line.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-3049, described as Reddish brown painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft. Bone head with 3 unilateral barbs, plaited sinew line.

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