Spear

Museum number:
2-3013
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
P. 27 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.26
Object count:
1
Description:
Three barbed points on wooden shaft attached with sinew, plus terminal barbed point. Tip of terminal points broken off.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Great Diomede Island, Siberia, Russia
Verbatim coll. place:
Russia; Siberia; Great Diomede Island
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
H. H. Cushing
Collection date:
ca. 1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spears (weapons)
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
December 16, 1902
Context of use:
This was made and owned by the old chief - the ivory forming the spear point and on the staff is from the jawbone of a whale and secured by walrus thongs. The wood is of drifwood presumably from the Yukon River." This is a goose spear.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 1.68 meters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 2-3013, described as Three barbed points on wooden shaft attached with sinew, plus terminal barbed point. Tip of terminal points broken off.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 2-3013, described as Three barbed points on wooden shaft attached with sinew, plus terminal barbed point. Tip of terminal points broken off.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 2-3013, described as Three barbed points on wooden shaft attached with sinew, plus terminal barbed point. Tip of terminal points broken off.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 2-3013, described as Three barbed points on wooden shaft attached with sinew, plus terminal barbed point. Tip of terminal points broken off.

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