Harpoon

Museum number:
2-15821
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.708
Description:
Red painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, detachable head of native copper with 3 unilateral barbs, fletched, plaited sinew line.
Donor:
W. Barclay Stephens
Collection place:
Prince William Sound, Valdez-Cordova Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Prince William Sound
Culture or time period:
Chugach
Collector:
Carleton H. Clark and Willie J. Clark Dodd
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Harpoons and Plaited weaving
Accession date:
1936
Context of use:
For hunting sea otter.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 79.5 centimeters
Comment:
References: "Birket-Smith, The Chugach Eskimo, pp. 30-31
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-15821, described as Red painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, detachable head of native copper with 3 unilateral barbs, fletched, plaited sinew line.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-15821, described as Red painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, detachable head of native copper with 3 unilateral barbs, fletched, plaited sinew line.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-15821, described as Red painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, detachable head of native copper with 3 unilateral barbs, fletched, plaited sinew line.

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