Harpoon Socketpiece
date: label: Accession Date
content: 27 Feb 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mr. Carl J. Lomen
notes: label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=491 , retrieved 7-31-2018; see web page for additional information: Harpoon socketpiece. Region: Probably St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. This socketpiece fit on the front end of an Old Bering Sea harpoon to hold the weapon's head and foreshaft. The carving style suggests that this archaeological socket piece was made between A.D. 400 - 800 (the Old Bering Sea II period). Some socketpieces are carved with clear animal heads and faces, but this one is more abstract; the circular designs may be eyes.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: St. Lawrence Island (not certain), Bering Sea Islands / St. Lawrence Quad (not certain), Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Old Bering Sea
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113787
label: USNM Number
content: A332180-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Harpoon
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 25 cm