Esquimaux Harpoon Line
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1862
label: Collection Date
content: 1860 to 1861
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Isaac I. Hayes
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Isaac I. Hayes
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MADE OF YOUNG WALRUS SKIN."
label: Notes
content: Note that 565 is mentioned as being used in an exhibit in Berlin in 1880 on p. 61 of USNM Bulletin No. 18. It is identified there as harpoon head of bone and iron with walrus hide line.
label: Notes
content: Described p. 113 in Brown, James Temple. 1883. The whale fishery and its appliances. Washington: Govt. print. off.: "Harpoon-head. Bone, with walrus-hide float-line. Eskimos, Port Foulke, Greenland. Dr. I. I. Hayes."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Port Foulke (Foulke Havn), Smith Sound (Near), Northwest, Greenland
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit, Greenland Inuit
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000020
label: USNM Number
content: E565-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Harpoon / Line