Harpoon

Museum number:
2-3044
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.106
Description:
Wood shaft painted red at both ends, sawed in half and then rejoined. Bone foreshaft, barbed point, plaited sinew lashing with red and green wool thread. Float missing.
Donor:
Ernest Moses
Collection place:
Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Aleut
Collector:
Ernest Moses
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Harpoons and Plaited weaving
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1903
Context of use:
Probably for walrus and/or whale. (According to Lydia Black, whaling harpoons had obsidian blades; walrus were taken on shore with lances and clubs, not with a harpoon with a drag float.)
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 2.48 centimeters and length 20.5 centimeters
Loans:
S1982-1983 #9: California History Center, De Anza College (September 15, 1982–March 2, 1983)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-3044, described as Wood shaft painted red at both ends, sawed in half and then rejoined. Bone foreshaft, barbed point, plaited sinew lashing with red and green wool thread. Float missing.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-3044, described as Wood shaft painted red at both ends, sawed in half and then rejoined. Bone foreshaft, barbed point, plaited sinew lashing with red and green wool thread. Float missing.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-3044, described as Wood shaft painted red at both ends, sawed in half and then rejoined. Bone foreshaft, barbed point, plaited sinew lashing with red and green wool thread. Float missing.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-3044, described as Wood shaft painted red at both ends, sawed in half and then rejoined. Bone foreshaft, barbed point, plaited sinew lashing with red and green wool thread. Float missing.

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