Walrus Harpoon
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1871
name: label: Collector
content: Capt. Charles F. Hall
label: Donor Name
content: Capt. Charles F. Hall
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1900; FIG. 53; P. 260."
label: Notes
content: Note that 10136 is mentioned as being used in an exhibit in Berlin in 1880 on p. 60 of USNM Bulletin No. 18. It is identified there as a head of a walrus harpoon, Eskimo, Igloolik. Locality info. on catalogue card: "Igloolik N.E. side Beacon Hill, 1866."
label: Notes
content: Described p. 109 in Brown, James Temple. 1883. The whale fishery and its appliances. Washington: Govt. print. off.: "Walrus-harpoon Head. End recessed for pole. Rigid eye for laniard. Length, 5 inches. Eskimos, Igloolik. 10136. Captain C. F. Hall."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Feb 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 002157
label: USNM Number
content: E10136-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Harpoon