Salmon Spear Head
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: "ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1; PL. LXVIII-3; P. 176. LOAN RETURNED 09 23 87."
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=555 , retrieved 11-4-2021; see web page for additional information: Salmon spear head, Yup'ik. Men speared fish through holes in the ice, covering themselves so they could peer into the water without reflections from the sky; nor could the fish look up and see them in silhouette. This two-part barbed spear head for salmon and whitefish was inserted in a long wooden shaft and tied to it through the hole in its base.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Chalitmut, 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: E37349-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spear
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 25 cm