Harpoon

Museum number:
2-6296
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
x-2489 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Feathered; bone point unilaterally barbed, attached to dart line of leather, Y-shaped, tied to shaft 26 & 87 cm from socket tip; socket of bone set into distal end of shaft; short retaining line from socket to the first attachment of dart line; at proximal end. Native name: nagiiquyaq. Used to hunt small sea mammals in the summer.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
St. Michael Island, Nome Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Bering Sea; Norton Sound
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Bone (material), Feather (material), and Leather
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Harpoons
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Seal harpoon.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
point— length 6 centimeters, whole— length 135 centimeters, point— width 1 centimeters, and point— height 0.7 centimeters
Comment:
Neg. number: ACC41-32; ACC41-31 p. 105 Graburn
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6296, described as Feathered; bone point unilaterally barbed, attached to dart line of leather, Y-shaped, tied to shaft 26 & 87 cm from socket tip; socket of bone set into distal end of shaft; short retaining line from socket to the first attachment of dart line; at proximal end. Native name: nagiiquyaq. Used to hunt small sea mammals in the summer.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6296, described as Feathered; bone point unilaterally barbed, attached to dart line of leather, Y-shaped, tied to shaft 26 & 87 cm from socket tip; socket of bone set into distal end of shaft; short retaining line from socket to the first attachment of dart line; at proximal end. Native name: nagiiquyaq. Used to hunt small sea mammals in the summer.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6296, described as Feathered; bone point unilaterally barbed, attached to dart line of leather, Y-shaped, tied to shaft 26 & 87 cm from socket tip; socket of bone set into distal end of shaft; short retaining line from socket to the first attachment of dart line; at proximal end. Native name: nagiiquyaq. Used to hunt small sea mammals in the summer.

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