Harpoon

Museum number:
2-6312
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Alternate number:
x-2505 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Harpoon; antler point, barbed on both sides; attached to a leather thong rolled around and tied to the shaft (106 cm from socket tip); antler finger rest shaped like a killer whale fin, lashed 64 cm down shaft; socket of heavy cylindrical baculum bone; all bone parts bound to shaft with sinew; proximal end tapered to point. Native name: nagiiquyaq.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Norton Sound to Bristol Bay, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Bering Sea; Norton Sound
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Antler (material), Leather, Penis bone (baculum), and Sinew (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Harpoons
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
to hunt sea mammals
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
point— height 0.7 centimeters, whole— length 157 centimeters, point— length 9.5 centimeters, socket— length 20 centimeters, point— width 1.5 centimeters, and socket— diameter 2.5 centimeters
Comment:
Neg. number: ACC41-01; ACC41-00 p. 107 Graburn cf. 2-6313
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6312, described as Harpoon; antler point, barbed on both sides; attached to a leather thong rolled around and tied to the shaft (106 cm from socket tip); antler finger rest shaped like a killer whale fin, lashed 64 cm down shaft; socket of heavy cylindrical baculum bone; all bone parts bound to shaft with sinew; proximal end tapered to point. Native name: nagiiquyaq.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6312, described as Harpoon; antler point, barbed on both sides; attached to a leather thong rolled around and tied to the shaft (106 cm from socket tip); antler finger rest shaped like a killer whale fin, lashed 64 cm down shaft; socket of heavy cylindrical baculum bone; all bone parts bound to shaft with sinew; proximal end tapered to point. Native name: nagiiquyaq.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6312, described as Harpoon; antler point, barbed on both sides; attached to a leather thong rolled around and tied to the shaft (106 cm from socket tip); antler finger rest shaped like a killer whale fin, lashed 64 cm down shaft; socket of heavy cylindrical baculum bone; all bone parts bound to shaft with sinew; proximal end tapered to point. Native name: nagiiquyaq.

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