Sea Mammal Lance
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1879
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG.196, P.161. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993."
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=74 , retrieved 10-25-2021; see web page for additional information: Lance, Yup'ik. This lance with an ivory socket at one end was used to stab and kill sea mammals after they were wounded with a harpoon. Lance points with stone or iron blades were inserted into the socket. An ivory finger-rest on the side of the shaft helped the hunter to keep a sure grip on the weapon. When a hunter thrust this weapon at an animal, the point, its aangruyak, went inside the animal and was detached from the tip. Once the point was lodged inside the animal and they continued to hit it with the aangruyak, the animal would weaken and die. - Yup'ik Elder Paul Wassilie. This lance with an ivory socket at one end was used to stab sea mammals that had already been wounded by darts or harpoons. Lance points with sharp stone or iron blades were inserted into the socket. An ivory finger rest on the side of the shaft helped the hunter to keep a sure grip on the weapon. Each person had a personal mark that was placed on all of his or her tools and weapons, including lance points.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Anogogmut, Yukon & Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E36058-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Lance