Beluga Whale Lance-Butt
date: label: Accession Date
content: 27 Sep 1883
name: label: Donor Name
content: Charles L. McKay
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "# 72403 - Illus. in USNM Rept, 1900; fig. 92; p. 302."
label: Notes
content: 72402 and 72403 described p. 113 in Brown, James Temple. 1883. The whale fishery and its appliances. Washington: Govt. print. off.: "Beluga-Lance Butts. Two butts made of walrus ivory, wedge-shaped, so as to be conveniently driven into the end of the lance, and provided with shoulders, by means of which they are seized and lashed. Length, 3 3/4 inches. 72403. Length, 4 inches. 72402. Alaska. C. L. McKay."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: 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: 013527
label: USNM Number
content: E72403-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Lance