Harpoon

Museum number:
2-6289
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
x-2482 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Bladder dart. With bladder. Bone foreshaft, harpoon toggle head of ivory with metal point. Ivory toggling head with a copper blade, foreshaft missing & dart line cut just after head; dart line made of leather rawhide attached to shaft 22 cm from tip of socket; socket made of bone & riveted to wooden shaft; finger rest hole 57 cm from tip. For summer sea hunting. Native names: narullkautaq, aklegaq.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Norton Sound, Nome Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Bering Sea; Norton Sound
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Materials:
Bone (material), Ivory (material), Leather, and Sinew (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Harpoons
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
For hunting seal and beluga in the summer.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
finger rest— width 1.7 centimeters, blade— width 2 centimeters, blade— length 6.5 centimeters, socket— diameter 18 centimeters, bladder— width 10.5 centimeters, hole— depth 57 centimeters, finger rest— length 2.5 centimeters, blade— height 1.6 centimeters, bladder— length 30 centimeters, socket— linear 2.7 centimeters, and shaft/socket— length 134 centimeters
Comment:
Neg. number: ACC40-30; ACC40-29; ACC40-31 p. 90 Graburn
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6289, described as Bladder dart. With bladder. Bone foreshaft, harpoon toggle head of ivory with metal point. Ivory toggling head with a copper blade, foreshaft missing & dart line cut just after head; dart line made of leather rawhide attached to shaft 22 cm from tip of socket; socket made of bone & riveted to wooden shaft; finger rest hole 57 cm from tip. For summer sea hunting. Native names: narullkautaq, aklegaq.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6289, described as Bladder dart. With bladder. Bone foreshaft, harpoon toggle head of ivory with metal point. Ivory toggling head with a copper blade, foreshaft missing & dart line cut just after head; dart line made of leather rawhide attached to shaft 22 cm from tip of socket; socket made of bone & riveted to wooden shaft; finger rest hole 57 cm from tip. For summer sea hunting. Native names: narullkautaq, aklegaq.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6289, described as Bladder dart. With bladder. Bone foreshaft, harpoon toggle head of ivory with metal point. Ivory toggling head with a copper blade, foreshaft missing & dart line cut just after head; dart line made of leather rawhide attached to shaft 22 cm from tip of socket; socket made of bone & riveted to wooden shaft; finger rest hole 57 cm from tip. For summer sea hunting. Native names: narullkautaq, aklegaq.

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