Arrow
- Museum number:
- 2-6579
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020006579
- Alternate number:
- x-2772 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Harpoon arrow, whalebone foreshaft with longitudinal grooves with whale tooth insets. Point missing. Red stained wood shaft, plaited sinew and feathers.
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Aleutian Islands, Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska; Aleutian Islands
- Culture or time period:
- Aleut
- Collector:
- unknown
- Collection date:
- unknown
- Materials:
- Feather (material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Arrows (projectiles)
- Function:
- 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- For hunting sea otter.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 85 centimeters
- Comment:
- Context of use: Cf. 2-6668, 6714. 10904, 13615, 19437 attributed by Roza Liapunova, Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Leningrad, USSR, 1973-74.
- Legacy documentation:
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