Objects
Heavy harpoon for hunting seal and sea lion. 19th cent.
Heavy harpoon for hunting seal and sea lion. 19th cent.
Number
МАЭ № 4270-38
Title
Heavy harpoon for hunting seal and sea lion
Ethnicity
Aleutians
Date
19th cent.
Expedition
Russian circumnavigations and half round-the-world sea expeditions
Collectors-person
unknown sailor
Material
wood, ivory, sinew, paint, deer antler, deer hair, woolen thread, birchbark
Dimensions
Length 187 cm, diam. 3.1 cm. Tip of shaft: length 23.5 cm, diam. 3.5 cm. Point: length 15.7 cm, width 2 cm, thickness 1.2 cm.
Corpus
Ethnography of America
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