Harpoon

Museum number:
2-6359
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
x-2552 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Feather and bone end. Red painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, bone head with 3 unilateral barbs. Plaited sinew line.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Kodiak Island, Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Kodiak district; Kodiak Island
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Bone (material), Colorant (material) (stained red), Feather (material), Sinew (material), and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Harpoons and Plaited weaving
Function:
1.0 Use not specified (Utensils, Implements, and Conveyances) and 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
For hunting sea otters.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
point— length 5 centimeters, point— height 0.4 centimeters, point— width 1 centimeters, foreshaft— length 21.1 centimeters, foreshaft— height 1.1 centimeters, and whole— length 88 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-21005 References: See: Notes on Koniag Material Culture, R. F. Heizer; Anthro Papers, Univ. Alaska, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 11-24 (p. 23, pl. d-g) Neg. number: ACC53-02; ACC53-03 Graburn, Nelson H.H., Molly Lee, Jean-Loup Rousselot, and Robin K. Wright. Catalogue Raisonné of the Alaska Commercial Company Collection, Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology, 113. Vol. 21. Univ of California Press, 1996.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6359, described as Feather and bone end. Red painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, bone head with 3 unilateral barbs. Plaited sinew line.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6359, described as Feather and bone end. Red painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, bone head with 3 unilateral barbs. Plaited sinew line.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6359, described as Feather and bone end. Red painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, bone head with 3 unilateral barbs. Plaited sinew line.

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