Seal hand lance foreshaft with stone point. (a) Red and black painted foreshaft with crosshatching and dot designs, slate blade. (b) Wood half sheath, has groove to hold blade and foreshaft which are further held with rawhide thong in other set of grooves.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Lower Yukon, Yukon, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Lower Yukon
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
ca. 1895
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Foreshafts (arrow components)
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
(a)— 29 centimeters and (b)— length 16.2 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: cf. Nelson Pl. LVIIa, #25.
Loans:
S1945-1946 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (March 11, 1946–October 28, 1955) and S1957-1960 [XXX Wellington]: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (1957–1960)