Seal Skin Buoy
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 Feb 1883
name: label: Donor Name
content: James G. Swan
notes: label: Notes
content: LEDGER AND CATALOG CARD SAY SENT TO TROCADERO, FRANCE. 1885, HOWEVER A FLOAT WITH THIS NUMBER IS IN THE COLLECTION.
label: Notes
content: Described p. 102 in Brown, James Temple. 1883. The whale fishery and its appliances. Washington: Govt. print. off.: "Seal-skin Buoy. Skin of hair-seal, small stationary wooden toggle at either end for holding eye-splice of harpoon-line. Small laniards made of fibers of spruce roots, for making fast to other buoys. Indian name, "Do-ko-kuptl." Length, 38 inches. Makah Indians, Cape Flattery, 1883. James G. Swan. Inflated and attached to the harpoon, showing the manner in which the apparatus is used during the capture. A number of buoys being made fast to the whale prevents its progressive motions, thus affording the natives an opportunity to kill it with the lance (72674)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Washington, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Makah
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 012690
label: USNM Number
content: E72630-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Float