Bolas

Museum number:
2-5939
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
x-2132 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Bola, native name: yaqulegcuun. Red wooden pendants (ocher - stained wood) each with large perforation. One has damaged tip. Carved wood, stained red; elliptical-shaped, pierced at one end; and a fragment of wooden object of about the same length but flat. Used for hunting birds from a kayak, these bolas do not sink.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Bering Sea and North, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Colorant (material) (pigment, red), Stone (worked rock), and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bolas (projectile weapons)
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
to hunt birds from kayak; these bolas can't sink
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
one stone— height 1.5 centimeters, one stone— length 6.5 centimeters, and one stone— width 2.5 centimeters
Comment:
Neg. number: ACC31-25
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bolas, accession number 2-5939, described as Bola, native name: yaqulegcuun. Red wooden pendants (ocher - stained wood) each with large perforation. One has damaged tip. Carved wood, stained red; elliptical-shaped, pierced at one end; and a fragment of wooden object of about the same length but flat. Used for hunting birds from a kayak, these bolas do not sink.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bolas, accession number 2-5939, described as Bola, native name: yaqulegcuun. Red wooden pendants (ocher - stained wood) each with large perforation. One has damaged tip. Carved wood, stained red; elliptical-shaped, pierced at one end; and a fragment of wooden object of about the same length but flat. Used for hunting birds from a kayak, these bolas do not sink.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bolas, accession number 2-5939, described as Bola, native name: yaqulegcuun. Red wooden pendants (ocher - stained wood) each with large perforation. One has damaged tip. Carved wood, stained red; elliptical-shaped, pierced at one end; and a fragment of wooden object of about the same length but flat. Used for hunting birds from a kayak, these bolas do not sink.

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