Harpoon

Museum number:
2-6404
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
x-2597 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Feathered; ivory point broken, barbed bilaterally attached to an Y-shaped leather thong tied 34 & 75 cm from tip of socket; bone socket set into the distal end of wood shaft; binding of twisted sinew string reaching the next attachment of dart line; proximal end not feathered. Yup'ik name: nagiiquyaq.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Bering Sea and North, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Bering Sea
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Leather, Sinew (material), and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Harpoons
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Seal spear.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
point— length 4.5 centimeters, point— height 0.6 centimeters, shaft— diameter 1.9 centimeters, socket— length 10.5 centimeters, point— width 1.2 centimeters, shaft— diameter 1.3 centimeters, whole— length 132 centimeters, and socket— diameter 2.3 centimeters
Comment:
Neg. number: ACC41-35 p. 110 Graburn
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6404, described as Feathered; ivory point broken, barbed bilaterally attached to an Y-shaped leather thong tied 34 & 75 cm from tip of socket; bone socket set into the distal end of wood shaft; binding of twisted sinew string reaching the next attachment of dart line; proximal end not feathered. Yup'ik name: nagiiquyaq.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6404, described as Feathered; ivory point broken, barbed bilaterally attached to an Y-shaped leather thong tied 34 & 75 cm from tip of socket; bone socket set into the distal end of wood shaft; binding of twisted sinew string reaching the next attachment of dart line; proximal end not feathered. Yup'ik name: nagiiquyaq.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6404, described as Feathered; ivory point broken, barbed bilaterally attached to an Y-shaped leather thong tied 34 & 75 cm from tip of socket; bone socket set into the distal end of wood shaft; binding of twisted sinew string reaching the next attachment of dart line; proximal end not feathered. Yup'ik name: nagiiquyaq.

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