Harpoon Line
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Apr 1896
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "FOR HARPOON. ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1; PL. LIV-9; P. 137. 1/83 SITES INUA LOAN. HARPOON LINE, SEAL HIDE ROPE, SINEW WRAPPING, IVORY HARPOON HEAD, FORESHAFT, CORD ATTACHERS. LOAN: U.S.I.A. INUA JUN 24 1988. ILLUS.: INUA CATALOGUE. USIA 1988, PL. 23, P.22. LOAN RETURNED DEC 28 1990." USIA Inua catalogue identifies: "Harpoon line and attachers. Cord attachers were needed to easily join and break lines in freezing weather. Various forms existed: the seal attacher was used to attach two lines together permanently. [Another type is a] ... piece ... [that] has a knob over which a line is slipped in order to lengthen the harpoon line."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Feb 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Nunivak Island, Bering Sea, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 96A00020
label: USNM Number
content: E175673-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Line / Cord Attacher / Harpoon
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 35 cm