Harpoon Walrus, Spear Cord, & Sheath
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1879
name: label: Collector
content: Turner
label: Collector
content: Nelson
label: Collector
content: Johnson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "HARPOON POINTS (10).---CONSISTING OF A WOODEN SHAFT, INTO ONE END OF WHICH A BARBED IVORY POINT IS INSERTED AND LASHED IN PLACE WITH A RAWHIDE THONG; INTO THIS POINT IS INSERTED ANOTHER OF IRON. WOODEN SHEATH ACCOMPANYING IN SOME INSTANCES. ESKIMO OF ALASKA. 38,298, 36,341, 37,956, 127,630, 37,951, 37,377, AND 127,511. COLLECTED BY E. W. NELSON, AND J. W. JOHNSON."
label: Notes
content: From transcript of consultations held in conjunction with "Yuungnaqpiallerput (The Way We Genuinely Live)" exhibit, April 17-18, 2010: "isn't designed to be retrieved. There's no hook to it. It's designed to use in a harpoon and it goes in, and then when the animal weakens, larger "
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Sep 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Nulukhtulogumut, Yukon & Kuskokwim Delta, 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: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E38298-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Harpoon