Shaft head
- Museum number:
- 2-4392
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020004392
- Alternate number:
- x-538 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- For holding spear point (point missing). Penis bone; circular in section with slit cut into one end; unfinished socket, the slot is made to receive the wooden shaft of the dart; at the other end a hole has to be drilled to receive the dart point.
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Bering Sea and North, Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska; Bering Sea
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo and Aleut
- Collector:
- unknown
- Materials:
- Penis bone (baculum)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 1.1 Hunting and Fishing and 8.3 For Manufacturing
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- dart socket
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- slot— length 4 centimeters, whole— diameter 1.25 centimeters, and whole— length 22.1 centimeters
- Comment:
- Neg. number: ACC29-28A 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.
- Legacy documentation: