Improved Harpoon
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Dec 1875
name: label: Donor Name
content: George Y. Nickerson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1900; FIG. 91; P. 302."
label: Notes
content: Note that 19518 is mentioned as being used in an exhibit in Berlin in 1880 on p. 61 of USNM Bulletin No. 18. It is identified there as whaling harpoon of recent manufacture, with head of bone and iron, handle of wood and iron, and seal skin line. Eskimo, Greenland.
label: Notes
content: Described p. 107 in Brown, James Temple. 1883. The whale fishery and its appliances. Washington: Govt. print. off.: "Eskimo Harpoon. Pole, wood; iron spur and ferule at butt; shank, iron; harpoon, ivory (lily iron); point tipped with iron; recessed for end of shank; rigid eye for line; line, seal-skin; sheath, wood. Length, 8 feet 5 1/2 inches. Eskimos, Greenland. George Y. Nickerson. An improved whaling-harpoon made by natives, evidently, in part, from material obtained from a whaling-vessel."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Jun 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Greenland
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 75A00069
label: USNM Number
content: E19518-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Harpoon