Harpoon
- Museum number:
- 2-62079
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020062079
- Accession number:
- Acc.3458
- Description:
- Red-stained wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, walrus ivory double barbed point attached to sealskin thong. Sinew lines, projecting bone or ivory finger rest.
- Donor:
- Ralph E. Prince
- Collection place:
- Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- unknown
- Taxon:
- Odobenus rosmarus
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Harpoons
- Function:
- 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
- Context of use:
- For hunting walrus.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 197.5 centimeters and length 9.9 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-