Harpoon

Museum number:
2-19427
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.854
Description:
Red painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, detachable head of native copper with 3 unilateral barbs, fletched, plaited sinew line. Found in quiver 2-19422.
Donor:
Ellinor C. Davidson and George Davidson
Collection place:
Prince William Sound, Valdez-Cordova Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Prince William Sound
Culture or time period:
Chugach
Collector:
George Davidson
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Harpoons, Plaited weaving, and Quivers
Accession date:
1945
Context of use:
For hunting sea otter.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 69.5 centimeters
Comment:
References: "Birket-Smith, The Chugach Eskimo, pp. 30-31
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-19427, described as Red painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, detachable head of native copper with 3 unilateral barbs, fletched, plaited sinew line. Found in quiver 2-19422.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-19427, described as Red painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, detachable head of native copper with 3 unilateral barbs, fletched, plaited sinew line. Found in quiver 2-19422.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-19427, described as Red painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, detachable head of native copper with 3 unilateral barbs, fletched, plaited sinew line. Found in quiver 2-19422.

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