Whaling Harpoon
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Dec 1875
name: label: Collector
content: George Y. Nickerson
label: Donor Name
content: George Y. Nickerson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1900; PL. 6; P. 260." FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "WHALING-HARPOON.---POLE WOOD, TIPPED WITH IVORY. IVORY POINT FITTING IN RECESSED TIP OF POLE AND SEIZED TO THE HANDLE WITH THONGS OF WALRUS-HIDE. LENGTH, 8 FEET. GREENLAND. 19,519. GEORGE Y. NICKERSON. USED BY ESKIMO."
label: Notes
content: Note that 19519 is mentioned as being used in an exhibit in Berlin in 1880 on p. 61 of USNM Bulletin No. 18.
label: Notes
content: Described p. 107 in Brown, James Temple. 1883. The whale fishery and its appliances. Washington: Govt. print. off.: "Whaling-Harpoon. Pole, wood; tipped with ivory. Ivory point fitting in recessed tip of pole, and seized to the handle with thongs of walrus-hide. Length, 8 feet. Eskimos, Greenland. George Y. Nickerson."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Jun 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Greenland
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 75A00069
label: USNM Number
content: E19519-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Harpoon
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 2 m