Seal Harpoon-Shaft, Ivory Blade
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1879
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CONDITION REPORT AFTER REMOVAL FROM EXHIBIT HALL 9 (C. VALENTOUR 3/98): "WOODEN SHAFT FITTED W/ IVORY EXTENSION AT ONE END, LASHED W/ BRAIDED SINEW. OTHER END FITTED W/ BONE SOCKET & LASHED W/ BRAIDED SINEW. WOODEN MOUNT FOR HARPOON POINT (MISSING) IN BONE SOCKET HELD W/ RAWHIDE LASHING THROUGH HOLE IN BASE OF MOUNT. RECTANGULAR IVORY PIECE TO BASE OF WOODEN SHAFT."
label: Notes
content: Described p. 111 in Brown, James Temple. 1883. The whale fishery and its appliances. Washington: Govt. print. off.: "Eskimo Lance. Pole, wood, butt-piece seized to pole with seal sinew; grip, ivory; lance-blade, section of walrus tusk, twenty inches long, seized to pole and served with seal sinew. Length, 8 feet 3 inches. Alaska. E. W. Nelson. Used by natives to kill both seal and walrus."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Aug 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Anogogmut, Cape Vancouver, 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: E36062-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Harpoon
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 72 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 6 cm