Harpoon

Museum number:
2-6318
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Alternate number:
x-2511 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Harpoon; bone point, barbed on both sides, attached to a leather thong, tied to the shaft (81 cm from tip); bone finger rest, shaped like a killer whale dorsal fin, is lashed 49 cm down shaft; bone socket lashed with spruce root binding to shaft; no retaining line. Native 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:
Bone (material), Leather, Penis bone (baculum), and Spruce root
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Harpoons
Function:
1.1.11 Summer Sea Hunting and 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
to hunt sea mammals
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
point— width 1.3 centimeters, shaft at finger rest— width 1.5 centimeters, shaft at proximal end— length 0.9 centimeters, whole— length 144 centimeters, socket— diameter 3 centimeters, point— height 0.5 centimeters, shaft at proximal end— width 0.8 centimeters, shaft at finger rest— length 2 centimeters, point— length 7 centimeters, and socket— length 18 centimeters
Comment:
Neg. number: ACC41-01; ACC41-00 p. 107 Graburn
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6318, described as Harpoon; bone point, barbed on both sides, attached to a leather thong, tied to the shaft (81 cm from tip); bone finger rest, shaped like a killer whale dorsal fin, is lashed 49 cm down shaft; bone socket lashed with spruce root binding to shaft; no retaining line. Native name: nagiiquyaq.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6318, described as Harpoon; bone point, barbed on both sides, attached to a leather thong, tied to the shaft (81 cm from tip); bone finger rest, shaped like a killer whale dorsal fin, is lashed 49 cm down shaft; bone socket lashed with spruce root binding to shaft; no retaining line. Native name: nagiiquyaq.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6318, described as Harpoon; bone point, barbed on both sides, attached to a leather thong, tied to the shaft (81 cm from tip); bone finger rest, shaped like a killer whale dorsal fin, is lashed 49 cm down shaft; bone socket lashed with spruce root binding to shaft; no retaining line. Native name: nagiiquyaq.

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