Blunt Point Of Bone For Spear
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1882
name: label: Donor Name
content: Lucien M. Turner
notes: label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 45, p. 187 in Turner, Lucien M., and Ray Hudson. 2008. An Aleutian ethnography. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press. Identified there as blunted spear point. "This blunted point was used in a winter competition when people engage in games in order to "forget their hunger." Spears tipped with these points appear to have another use. While on Attu in 1936, Alan G. May was told, "The bullet-shaped points that I have been finding were used by children to practice harpooning." (May, 1936 Expedition to the Aleutian Islands: Complete Journal, p. 121. Box 15, folder 6, Alan G. May Papers. Archives & Special Collections Department, University of Alaska Anchorage.)"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Attu Island, Attu Quad / Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 010517
label: USNM Number
content: A64882-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Point