Nulukhtulogumut, Yukon & Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska, United States, North America
Accession Date:
1879
Notes:
FROM CARD: "HARPOON POINTS (10).---CONSISTING OF A WOODEN SHAFT, INTO ONE END OF WHICH A BARBED IVORY POINT IS INSERTED AND LASHED IN PLACE WITH A RAWHIDE THONG; INTO THIS POINT IS INSERTED ANOTHER OF IRON. WOODEN SHEATH ACCOMPANYING IN SOME INSTANCES. ESKIMO OF ALASKA. 38,298, 36,341, 37,956, 127,630, 37,951, 37,377, AND 127,511. COLLECTED BY E. W. NELSON, AND J. W. JOHNSON."
From transcript of consultations held in conjunction with "Yuungnaqpiallerput (The Way We Genuinely Live)" exhibit, April 17-18, 2010: "isn't designed to be retrieved. There's no hook to it. It's designed to use in a harpoon and it goes in, and then when the animal weakens, larger "
