Spear model

Museum number:
2-5946
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
X-2139 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Ivory model of spear. Carved; point barbed on one side, and small float attached to shaft; distribution of this dart, Yukon Delta to Pacific Eskimo; this dart was part of an ivory kayak model.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Lower Yukon to Kuskokwim, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Bering Sea; Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo and Alutiiq
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1898
Materials:
Ivory (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spears (weapons)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions and 6.2 Toys, Children’s Utensils, Objects used in the Education of Children
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
cf. 2-5912
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 0.2 centimeters, width 0.4 centimeters, and length 8.5 centimeters
Comment:
Neg. number: ACC55-33 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, 112. Vol. 21. Univ of California Press, 1996.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Spear model, accession number 2-5946, described as Ivory model of spear. Carved; point barbed on one side, and small float attached to shaft; distribution of this dart, Yukon Delta to Pacific Eskimo; this dart was part of an ivory kayak model.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear model, accession number 2-5946, described as Ivory model of spear. Carved; point barbed on one side, and small float attached to shaft; distribution of this dart, Yukon Delta to Pacific Eskimo; this dart was part of an ivory kayak model.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear model, accession number 2-5946, described as Ivory model of spear. Carved; point barbed on one side, and small float attached to shaft; distribution of this dart, Yukon Delta to Pacific Eskimo; this dart was part of an ivory kayak model.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear model, accession number 2-5946, described as Ivory model of spear. Carved; point barbed on one side, and small float attached to shaft; distribution of this dart, Yukon Delta to Pacific Eskimo; this dart was part of an ivory kayak model.

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