Harpoon Long Shaft With Bladder Float
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1872
name: label: Donor Name
content: Vincent Colyer
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "USED AS BALUSTRADE TO KEEP HARPOONS FROM GOING OVERBOARD. [Preceding description appears to apply to 11361, not 11362. - F. Pickering 2014.] ILLUS. IN USNM REPT. 1900; PL. 19; P. 304."
label: Notes
content: Described p. 114 in Brown, James Temple. 1883. The whale fishery and its appliances. Washington: Govt. print. off.: "Harpoon With Bladder-float. Pole, wood, painted black, striped with dull red; tip served with seal-sinew and recessed for harpoon-head. Harpoon, bone, two barbed notches, attached to line with seal thong. Line probably seal sinew, stopped to pole; float bladder of seal, old, lashed to pole with seal sinew; ivory plug, ornamented, inserted in neck of bladder to be used when the bladder is inflated; finger-rest, horn. Length, 14 feet. Kodiak, Alaska. Vincent Colyer."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Feb 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kodiak Island, Kodiak Islands, 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: 002478
label: USNM Number
content: E11362-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Harpoon