Harpoon-Head
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Jan 1884
name: label: Collector
content: Lucien M. Turner
label: Donor Name
content: Lucien M. Turner
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Illus. in BAE 9th AR, fig. 67, p. 249."
label: Notes
content: Illus. p. 44 in Turner, Lucien M., Scott A. Heyes, and K. M. Helgen. 2014. Mammals of Ungava & Labrador: the 1882-1884 fieldnotes of Lucien M. Turner together with Inuit and Innu knowledge. Identified there as "Harpoon head for hunting whales and seals. A harpoon head collected by Turner at Ft. Chimo, probably in 1883. He wrote that "The Innuit paddle after the whales and with this instrument stab them repeatedly or else sink the point so deep into the flesh that the spear is imbedded and becomes disjointed at the coupling and the struggles of the animal cause the point to twist aside and the head of it to catch under the skin..""
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Ungava Bay, Quebec, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 013922
label: USNM Number
content: E90164-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Harpoon