Whale & Seal Lance
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1880
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. National Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: Described p. 112 in Brown, James Temple. 1883. The whale fishery and its appliances. Washington: Govt. print. off.: "Seal-lance And Harpoon. Handle, wood; lance, walrus ivory, lashed to butt with seal-skin; butt and tip of pole served with strips of wood; head-piece, walrus ivory, recessed for harpoon shank, and lashed to pole with a thong of seal-skin; grip, ivory; harpoon wanting. Length, 12 feet. Eskimo, Cape Lisburne, Arctic Ocean. W. H. Dall. Lance and harpoon combined."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Feb 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Cape Lisburne, 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: 009536
label: USNM Number
content: E46176-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Lance