Bird Dart Or Spear
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1879
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=546 , retrieved 1-11-2022; see web page for additional information: Dart, Inupiaq. Bird hunting weapons included multi-pronged darts propelled with a throwing board. Kayak hunters used them to kill ducks and geese, especially in the summer when the molting birds float on the water and are unable to fly. Darts killed birds with their sharp central points or entangled wings and necks with their barbed side-prongs.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Unalakleet, Norton Sound, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inupiaq
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E36078-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dart