Harpoon

Museum number:
2-6403
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Alternate number:
x-2596 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Feathered; incomplete, point missing; remnant of leather dart line attached to shaft 84 cm from tip of socket; ivory socket with four decorative circular incisions; mortised at its base to receive the distal end of the shaft; retaining line of twisted sinew along the shaft and connected to binding of three black feathers set at proximal end; cylindrical wooden shaft painted black. Yup'ik name: nagiiquyaq.
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
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Feather (material) (black), Ivory (material), Paint (coating) (black), Sinew (material), and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Harpoons
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Seal spear.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
socket— diameter 2.3 centimeters, whole— length 128 centimeters, and socket— length 16 centimeters
Comment:
Neg. number: ACC41-35 p. 109 Graburn
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6403, described as Feathered; incomplete, point missing; remnant of leather dart line attached to shaft 84 cm from tip of socket; ivory socket with four decorative circular incisions; mortised at its base to receive the distal end of the shaft; retaining line of twisted sinew along the shaft and connected to binding of three black feathers set at proximal end; cylindrical wooden shaft painted black. Yup'ik name: nagiiquyaq.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6403, described as Feathered; incomplete, point missing; remnant of leather dart line attached to shaft 84 cm from tip of socket; ivory socket with four decorative circular incisions; mortised at its base to receive the distal end of the shaft; retaining line of twisted sinew along the shaft and connected to binding of three black feathers set at proximal end; cylindrical wooden shaft painted black. Yup'ik name: nagiiquyaq.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6403, described as Feathered; incomplete, point missing; remnant of leather dart line attached to shaft 84 cm from tip of socket; ivory socket with four decorative circular incisions; mortised at its base to receive the distal end of the shaft; retaining line of twisted sinew along the shaft and connected to binding of three black feathers set at proximal end; cylindrical wooden shaft painted black. Yup'ik name: nagiiquyaq.

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