Spear

Museum number:
2-1786
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Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Three barbed points on wooden shaft attached with sinew; plus terminal point, barbed on two sides and incised with figure of seal and circle. Shaft painted with red and black.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwest Bering Sea, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Northwest Bering Sea
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
ca. 1895
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spears (weapons)
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Context of use:
Probably made for tourist sale.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 1.52 meters
Comment:
Atypical terminal point for bird spear." "Terminal point similar to small seal spear, Plate LIV, Figures 7 and 8, in U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology Report, c. 1899.
Loans:
S1990-1991 #23: Blackhawk Museums (March 20, 1991–August 16, 1994)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 2-1786, described as Three barbed points on wooden shaft attached with sinew; plus terminal point, barbed on two sides and incised with figure of seal and circle. Shaft painted with red and black.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 2-1786, described as Three barbed points on wooden shaft attached with sinew; plus terminal point, barbed on two sides and incised with figure of seal and circle. Shaft painted with red and black.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 2-1786, described as Three barbed points on wooden shaft attached with sinew; plus terminal point, barbed on two sides and incised with figure of seal and circle. Shaft painted with red and black.

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