Harpoon foreshaft

Museum number:

2-45360

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Accession number:

Acc.2747

Object count:

1

Description:

Carved ivory. Wedge shaped at one end.

Donor:

Harold J. Murphy

Collection place:

Alaska

Verbatim coll. place:

Alaska

Culture or time period:

Alaskan Eskimo

Collector:

Harold J. Murphy

Collection date:

1945-1971

Taxon:

Odobenus rosmarus

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Harpoons

Accession date:

1971

Context of use:

Walrus harpoon foreshaft

Department:

Native US and Canada (except California)

Dimensions:

length 24.6 centimeters

Comment:

References: Murdock, J. ETHN. RESULTS OF PT. BARROW EXP., fig. 222.

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