Spear
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Jul 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Museum Of Academy Of Sciences Leningrad
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: ""Palma, spear used in bear hunting" Iron blade, wooden handle, leather wrapping at upper end."
label: Notes
content: Reference: Ivanova-Unarova, Zinaida, 2017. Siberian Collections in the U.S. Museums. Yakutsk. Object is identified there: Spear. Batyia. 18-19th century. Metal, wood, hide. Forging, carving. Length with shaft: 132. A metal blade is attached to a long wooden shaft. On the right side, there is a wide uosoval fuller typical for batyia. The blade gradually widens at the centre, narrowing at the tip. The base of the blade is profiled with notches. The wooden shaft is wrapped in small leather straps. In the 17th century, the spear was used as a hacking-thrusting weapon for close combat. In the 18th-19th centuries, it was used for hunting. The metal is heavily blackened and there is a crack on the shaft.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Dec 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Aldan & Lena Rivers Area, Siberia, Russia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Yakut (Sakha)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 103666
label: USNM Number
content: E352249-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spear
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 132 cm