Butt End Of Harpoon Stick
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 CARD: "37344-5. LOAN: U.S.I.A. INUA JUN 24 1988. ILLUS.: INUA CATALOGUE. USIA 1988, PL. 21, P.21. LOAN RETURNED DEC 28 1990." USIA Inua identifies: Bladder dark socketpiece. "Socketpieces were made of heavy bone or ivory, and often decorated with predator motifs of helping spirits .... Use of animal motifs invested the piece with the qualities possessed by the animal ..." Pointed base indicates this is Yup'ik.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Dec 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kulwoguwigumut, Kuskokwim Bay, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E37344-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Harpoon
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 23.2 cm