Lance-Haft For Seal Or Whale
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1880
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1900; PL. 10; P. 290."
label: Notes
content: Described p. 108 in Brown, James Temple. 1883. The whale fishery and its appliances. Washington: Govt. print. off.: "Seal-harpoon. Pole, wood; lance, walrus ivory, seized to butt with seal-thongs; Grip, ivory; carved in imitation of head of seal; tip of pole served with alternate layers of black and transparent strips of baleen; head-piece ivory recessed for ivory shank, lashed to pole with a seal-thong. Harpoon wanting. Length, 11 feet. [Golovnin] Bay, Alaska. E. W. Nelson. Harpoon and lance combined."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Feb 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Golovnin Bay, Norton Sound, 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: 80A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E43346-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Lance