Foreshaft
- Museum number:
- 2-4357a,b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21024357a@2cb
- Alternate number:
- x-503 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Bone point.
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- unknown
- Materials:
- Leather, Sinew (material), and Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Foreshafts (arrow components)
- Function:
- 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- Hand spear.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- (a)— length 38.5 centimeters and (b)— width 6.5 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1967-1968 #128: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (April 24, 1968–June 7, 1968)
- Legacy documentation:
-