Large Fish Spears, Walrus Lance
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Nov 1874
name: label: Donor Name
content: Henry W. Elliott
notes: label: Notes
content: This may be the object described, under incorrect # 15954, on p. 111 in Brown, James Temple. 1883. The whale fishery and its appliances. Washington: Govt. print. off.: "Seal-lance. Pole, wood, served at tip with strips of baleen; shank, ivory, seized with thong of seal-skin 5 lance-head, iron, riveted to shank. Length, 12 feet 2 inches. Poonook, Alaska. H. W. Elliott. Used by natives for the capture of seal and walrus."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Feb 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Poonook (Punuk), 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: 74A00060
label: USNM Number
content: E15594-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Lance