Harpoon
- Museum number:
- 2-62080
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020062080
- Accession number:
- Acc.3458
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- Incomplete. Thick, heavy, red stained wood shaft. Flanged whalebone foreshaft with large opening for point attached by sinew cordage.
- Donor:
- Ralph E. Prince
- Collection place:
- Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- unknown
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Harpoons
- Function:
- 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
- Context of use:
- Walrus harpoon ???
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 184 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-