Object Details
- Collector
- William J. Fisher
- Donor Name
- William J. Fisher
- FROM CARD: "IVORY. HARPOON HEAD, TOGG[L]ED. BARB HEAD, BIRD SPEAR 1 ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1900; FIG. 88; P. 297." As of 2012, this catalogue number consists of one toggling harpoon head (# 1 of 2), and one barbed prong for head of bird or fish spear? (# 2 of 2). Toggling harpoon, # 1 of 2, Illus. Fig. 156, p. 161 in Crowell, Aron, Amy F. Steffian, and Gordon L. Pullar. 2001. Looking both ways: heritage and identity of the Alutiiq people. Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Press.
- Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on harpoon head # 1 of 2: http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=268 , retrieved 8-30-2012: Harpoon head, Sugpiaq (Alutiiq), probably Alaska Peninsula. cingia "harpoon head" -Language: Koniag Sugpiaq (Alaska Peninsula dialect) This heavy harpoon head for killing sea lions is made of bone with a slate blade and a wooden foreshaft; the whole assembly fit on the end of a harpoon. The keeper-ring of twisted bark slipped over the back end of the harpoon head to hold it straight until the harpooner made his strike.
- This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027; only toggling harpoon head, # 1 of 2, is on loan.
- Record Last Modified
- 9 Feb 2022
- Specimen Count
- 2
- Culture
- Eskimo, Alutiiq (Sugpiaq)
- Accession Date
- 10 Feb 1894
- Accession Number
- 027806
- USNM Number
- E168625-0
- Object Type
- Harpoon / Spear
- Length - Harpoon Head
- 25 cm
- Place
- Bristol Bay / Nabachtalik River (Napartalek), Alaska, United States, North America
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- Anthropology
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Topic
- Ethnology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8348740
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3269fa012-9632-4a78-8b48-8435589c62b0
