Harpoon

Museum number:
2-6369
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
x-2562 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Bone foreshaft inserted into wooden shaft, painted red; bone point with three unilateral barbs secured with Y-shaped braided sinew dart line; feathers at proximal notched end. Damaged while on loan to Heard Museum, Loan 564-65 #72.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
St. Michael, St. Michael Island, Nome Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; St. Michael
Culture or time period:
Kodiak Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Bone (material), Feather (material), Paint (coating) (red), and Sinew (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Harpoons
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
whole— length 86 centimeters, point— length 4 centimeters, point— width 1 centimeters, and point— height 0.5 centimeters
Comment:
Neg. number: ACC53-03; ACC53-02 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, 114. Vol. 21. Univ of California Press, 1996.
Loans:
S1964-1965 #34b: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 25, 1964–March 25, 1966) and S1964-1965 #72: Heard Museum (March 25, 1965–September 24, 1965)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6369, described as Bone foreshaft inserted into wooden shaft, painted red; bone point with three unilateral barbs secured with Y-shaped braided sinew dart line; feathers at proximal notched end. Damaged while on loan to Heard Museum, Loan 564-65 #72.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6369, described as Bone foreshaft inserted into wooden shaft, painted red; bone point with three unilateral barbs secured with Y-shaped braided sinew dart line; feathers at proximal notched end. Damaged while on loan to Heard Museum, Loan 564-65 #72.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6369, described as Bone foreshaft inserted into wooden shaft, painted red; bone point with three unilateral barbs secured with Y-shaped braided sinew dart line; feathers at proximal notched end. Damaged while on loan to Heard Museum, Loan 564-65 #72.

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