Harpoon Point And Sheath
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 Feb 1883
name: label: Donor Name
content: James G. Swan
notes: label: Notes
content: Described p. 101 in Brown, James Temple. 1883. The whale fishery and its appliances. Washington: Govt. print. off.: "Harpoon Head And Laniard. Head, apparently a piece of an old saw blade, covered with a coating of spruce gum. Laniard, sinews of the whale served with twine made from fibers of nettle to render it impermeable to water. Barbs, elk bone; sheath, bark. Length, 20 feet. Makah Indians, Cape Flattery, 1883. James G. Swan. Used by natives for fastening seal-skin buoys to whales."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Washington, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Makah
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 012690
label: USNM Number
content: E72635-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Harpoon