Harpoon

Museum number:
2-6405
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
x-2598 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Feathered; bone point bilaterally barbed, attached to Y-shaped leather thong tied 31 & 87 cm from tip of socket; bone socket set into distal end of shaft, wound with twisted sinew to the shaft; short retaining line of sinew thread connecting socket with shaft; feathers at proximal end. Yup'ik name: nagiiquyaq.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Norton Sound to Bristol Bay, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Bering Sea; Norton Sound
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Feather (material), Leather, and Sinew (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Harpoons
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Seal spear.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
shaft— diameter 1.6 centimeters, point— width 1 centimeters, socket— length 14 centimeters, point— length 7 centimeters, point— height 0.5 centimeters, whole— length 134 centimeters, and socket— diameter 2.5 centimeters
Comment:
Neg. number: ACC41-35 p. 110 Graburn
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6405, described as Feathered; bone point bilaterally barbed, attached to Y-shaped leather thong tied 31 & 87 cm from tip of socket; bone socket set into distal end of shaft, wound with twisted sinew to the shaft; short retaining line of sinew thread connecting socket with shaft; feathers at proximal end. Yup'ik name: nagiiquyaq.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6405, described as Feathered; bone point bilaterally barbed, attached to Y-shaped leather thong tied 31 & 87 cm from tip of socket; bone socket set into distal end of shaft, wound with twisted sinew to the shaft; short retaining line of sinew thread connecting socket with shaft; feathers at proximal end. Yup'ik name: nagiiquyaq.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6405, described as Feathered; bone point bilaterally barbed, attached to Y-shaped leather thong tied 31 & 87 cm from tip of socket; bone socket set into distal end of shaft, wound with twisted sinew to the shaft; short retaining line of sinew thread connecting socket with shaft; feathers at proximal end. Yup'ik name: nagiiquyaq.

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