Harpoon
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: LONG, FLATTENED WOOD SHAFT, OCTAGONAL IN CROSS SECTION, WITH A SPLIT SOCKET END BOUND WITH BRAIDED SINEW.SINGLE BARBED, DETACHABLE, BONE POINT IS TIED TO SHAFT WITH A HEAVY PIECE OF HIDE. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. PUBLICATION: BAE BULLETIN 143, HANDBOOK OF SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS, COOPER, PP. 206-7. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: Catalog card is missing from card file. Card information that follows is taken from a xerox copy of the card: "Flattened wood shaft, octagonal in cross section, with the split socket in the end bound with heavily braided sinew. The unilatterly heavy single barbed bone point tied to the shaft with a heavy piece of hide that slides for the base of the point to fit into the socket but be detachable when has hit its prey. Point L. 22 cm. Refer: Cooper: pp. 206-7."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies as a fish spear.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Jun 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tierra Del Fuego, Chile, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Yahgan (Yagán, Yámana) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E5054-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Harpoon
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 342 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 3.3 cm