Sea otter dart shaft; wood carved to a circular section, proximal end broken; at distal end bone socket with a very fine sinew winding wrapped on top of a layer of birch bark; wrapped on shaft, remnants of dart line made of braided sinew fibers, cut at end probably to remove dart head, now missing.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Bering Sea, Western Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo and Aleut
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Birch bark (plant material), Bone (material), Penis bone (baculum), and Sinew (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Arrows (projectiles)
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Sea otter dart shaft.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
whole— length 95.5 centimeters and whole— diameter 1.8 centimeters
Comment:
Neg. number: ACC42-01; ACC42-02 Graburn, Nelson H.H., Molly Lee, Jean-Loup Rousselot, and Robin K. Wright. Catalogue Raisonné of the Alaska Commercial Company Collection, Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology, 113. Vol. 21. Univ of California Press, 1996.