Harpoon

Museum number:
2-6370
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
x-2563 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Fletched. Red painted wood shaft, bone foreshaft and point. whalebone foreshaft inserted into wooden shaft, painted red; bone tip with three unilateral barbs secured with sinew; feathers at proximal end.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
St. Michael, St. Michael Island, Nome Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; St. Michael
Culture or time period:
Kodiak Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Feather (material), Paint (coating) (red), Sinew (material), and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Harpoons
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Dart arrow used for sea otters.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
whole— length 86.8 centimeters
Comment:
Neg. number: ACC53-02; ACC53-03 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, 114. Vol. 21. Univ of California Press, 1996.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6370, described as Fletched. Red painted wood shaft, bone foreshaft and point. whalebone foreshaft inserted into wooden shaft, painted red; bone tip with three unilateral barbs secured with sinew; feathers at proximal end.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6370, described as Fletched. Red painted wood shaft, bone foreshaft and point. whalebone foreshaft inserted into wooden shaft, painted red; bone tip with three unilateral barbs secured with sinew; feathers at proximal end.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6370, described as Fletched. Red painted wood shaft, bone foreshaft and point. whalebone foreshaft inserted into wooden shaft, painted red; bone tip with three unilateral barbs secured with sinew; feathers at proximal end.

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