Harpoon arrow. Copper point with 3 barbs on one side only; red stained wood mainshaft, bone foreshaft with longitudinal grooves with whale tooth inlay; plaited sinew line; fletched. Feathers.
Donor:
J. N. Force
Collection place:
Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Aleutian Islands
Culture or time period:
Aleut
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Arrows (projectiles)
Accession date:
1923
Context of use:
For hunting sea otter.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 80.7 centimeters
Comment:
Context of use: Ms. Roza Liapunova made attribution on basis of "whale tooth insets on foreshaft, and lines.