Float etc.
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Nov 1878
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "33933-40. USED AFTER THE BELUGA (WHALE) OR SEAL HAVE BEEN SPEARED WITH ANOTHER SPEAR IN ORDER TO PREVENT IT FROM SINKING. THIS FLOAT IS INFLATED WHEN IN USE, AT OTHER TIMES FOLDED AROUND THE SHAFT. 33935 PEABODY MUSEUM. #33933 - ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1900; PL. 9; P. 284."
label: Notes
content: From Card 2: "Harpoons. Shafts of cedar, oval in cross section, fitted into bone heads, in outer end of which are wooden plugs in which are inserted barbed-bone points secured to heads by lanyards. On middle of shafts are fastened bone finger cleats, and near ends are lashed seal bladder buoys, with bone mouth pieces; harpoon line is attached to lanyard shaft. Length, 4 to 5 feet; bone heads, 7 inches; points 3 to 5 inches. Alaska. Collected by E. W. Nelson and L. M. Turner. 33,936, 29,040, 33,911, 33,912, 33,930, 33,938, 33,864, 33,975, 33,933. Used by Alaskan Indians of Norton Sound and elsewhere in seal and beluga hunting, and thrown after the game has been previously speared to prevent them from sinking or escaping."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Jan 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Pastolik, Yukon River, Mouth, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 78A00080
label: USNM Number
content: E33936-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Harpoon / Float