Projectile point

Museum number:
2-4385
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020004385
Alternate number:
x-531 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Barbed, antler. Ivory; tang drilled to attach the leader; symmetrical shape, flat triangular section for better penetration. Native name: cingileq.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Bristol Bay, Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Bering Sea; Bristol Bay
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Materials:
Ivory (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Projectile points
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
sealing; small sea mammals
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 6.8 centimeters, height 0.4 centimeters, and width 1 centimeters
Comment:
Neg. number: ACC50-28 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, 112. Vol. 21. Univ of California Press, 1996.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Projectile point, accession number 2-4385, described as Barbed, antler. Ivory; tang drilled to attach the leader; symmetrical shape, flat triangular section for better penetration. Native name: cingileq.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Projectile point, accession number 2-4385, described as Barbed, antler. Ivory; tang drilled to attach the leader; symmetrical shape, flat triangular section for better penetration. Native name: cingileq.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Projectile point, accession number 2-4385, described as Barbed, antler. Ivory; tang drilled to attach the leader; symmetrical shape, flat triangular section for better penetration. Native name: cingileq.

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