Harpoon Endblade
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1871
label: Collection Date
content: August 1869
name: label: Collector
content: Capt. Charles F. Hall
label: Collector
content: Ipirvik (Ebierbing)
label: Donor Name
content: Capt. Charles F. Hall
notes: label: Notes
content: Ledger book and catalogue card list collection locality as "on land near Whale Point", with a date of 1869. Written on the artifact itself: "Esquimaux Knife, White Point (found by Esquimaux Joe Aug '69), Capt. C. F. Hall." "Esquimaux Joe" is presumed to be the Canadian Inuit man named/called variously Ipirvik, Ebierbing, "Joe", "Eskimo Joe", and Joseph Ebierbing, who served as Hall's guide,
label: Notes
content: This is a Thule ground-slate whaling harpoon endblade, dating to AD 1000 - 1400.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Whale Point (near), Nunavut (not certain), Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Thule Eskimo
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 002157
label: USNM Number
content: E10153-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Harpoon