Walrus & Whale Lance-Shaft
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Feb 1882
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: Described p. 112 in Brown, James Temple. 1883. The whale fishery and its appliances. Washington: Govt. print. off.: "Eskimo Lance. Pole, wood; butt-piece, ivory, served with seal sinew; rigid ivory grip; lance, piece of walrus tusk, seized to pole with seal sinew. Length, 7 feet 8 inches. Nunivak Island, Alaska. E. W. Nelson. Used by natives to kill both seal and walrus."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Nunivak Island, Bering Sea, Alaska, United States, 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: 82A00003
label: USNM Number
content: E48378-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Lance
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 234 cm