Harpoon Head And Spearhead
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Feb 1894
name: label: Collector
content: William J. Fisher
label: Donor Name
content: William J. Fisher
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "IVORY. HARPOON HEAD, TOGG[L]ED. BARB HEAD, BIRD SPEAR 1 ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1900; FIG. 88; P. 297." As of 2012, this catalogue number consists of one toggling harpoon head (# 1 of 2), and one barbed prong for head of bird or fish spear? (# 2 of 2). Toggling harpoon, # 1 of 2, Illus. Fig. 156, p. 161 in Crowell, Aron, Amy F. Steffian, and Gordon L. Pullar. 2001. Looking both ways: heritage and identity of the Alutiiq people. Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Press.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on harpoon head # 1 of 2: http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=268 , retrieved 8-30-2012: Harpoon head, Sugpiaq (Alutiiq), probably Alaska Peninsula. cingia "harpoon head" -Language: Koniag Sugpiaq (Alaska Peninsula dialect) This heavy harpoon head for killing sea lions is made of bone with a slate blade and a wooden foreshaft; the whole assembly fit on the end of a harpoon. The keeper-ring of twisted bark slipped over the back end of the harpoon head to hold it straight until the harpooner made his strike.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027; only toggling harpoon head, # 1 of 2, is on loan.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Bristol Bay / Nabachtalik River (Napartalek), Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Alutiiq (Sugpiaq)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 027806
label: USNM Number
content: E168625-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Harpoon / Spear
physicalDescription: label: Length - Harpoon Head
content: 25 cm