Foreshaft

Museum number:
2-19259
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.854
Description:
Harpoon foreshaft of whalebone with 2 large barbs, crude green bottle glass point. Sinew binding. Old writing on specimen said to read: "Valeavis Mashin St.".
Donor:
Ellinor C. Davidson and George Davidson
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Foreshafts (arrow components)
Accession date:
1945
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 36.5 centimeters
Loans:
S1967-1968 #128: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (April 24, 1968–June 7, 1968) and S1974-1975 #30: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Allen Pastron (October 30, 1974–November 11, 1974)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Foreshaft, accession number 2-19259, described as Harpoon foreshaft of whalebone with 2 large barbs, crude green bottle glass point. Sinew binding. Old writing on specimen said to read: "Valeavis Mashin St.".Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Foreshaft, accession number 2-19259, described as Harpoon foreshaft of whalebone with 2 large barbs, crude green bottle glass point. Sinew binding. Old writing on specimen said to read: "Valeavis Mashin St.".Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Foreshaft, accession number 2-19259, described as Harpoon foreshaft of whalebone with 2 large barbs, crude green bottle glass point. Sinew binding. Old writing on specimen said to read: "Valeavis Mashin St.".

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