Harpoon

Museum number:
2-6590
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Alternate number:
x-2783 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Red-brown painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, barbed point, fletched.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Aleut and Kodiak Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Harpoons
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 84.3 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6590, described as Red-brown painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, barbed point, fletched.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6590, described as Red-brown painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, barbed point, fletched.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6590, described as Red-brown painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, barbed point, fletched.

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