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.