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