Toggling Harpoon Point With Attached Line
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CONDITION REPORT FOR HALL 9 TAKEDOWN (C. VALENTOUR, 3/98): "IRON ALLOY POINT INSERTED INTO IVORY SOCKET, HELD IN PLACE WITH WOODEN DOWEL. BASE OF SOCKET HAS HOLE FOR ATTACHING TO HARPOON SHAFT. ANOTHER HOLE DRILLED THROUGH SOCKET BODY FOR THREADING RAWHIDE LINE WRAPPED WITH BRAIDED SINEW. JOINED IN 1 PLACE WITH RAWHIDE THREAD TO COIL OF RAWHIDE. EXTRA LENGTH OF RAWHIDE LASHING WRAPPED AROUND 1 POINT." TOGGLING HARPOON POINT WITH ATTACHED LINE, MAY BE FOR SEAL, WALRUS OR WHALE. THIS POINT WAS ON HARPOON SHAFT 36062 WHEN IT WAS ON EXHIBIT IN NHB HALL 9, EXHIBIT CASE "SEA HUNTING AND FISHING" (LECTUR 4), BUT IT DOES NOT ACTUALLY GO WITH THIS SHAFT. ALASKA?
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Jan 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Alaska (not certain), United States (not certain), North America (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET24507-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Harpoon
physicalDescription: label: Length - W/coil
content: 127 cm
label: Length - W/out Coil
content: 30 cm
label: Length - Of Point
content: 10 cm