Wooden spear, with a bone head, with carved notches on the head, and three notched bone prongs bound to the shaft. [VS [OPS move] 6/9/2018]

Collection type: Object
Description: Wooden spear, with a bone head, with carved notches on the head, and three notched bone prongs bound to the shaft. [VS [OPS move] 6/9/2018]
Long description: Wooden spear, with a bone head, with carved notches on the head, and three notched bone prongs bound to the shaft. The head is notched on one side for half the blade, and the other side for the rest of the blade. The prongs are notched on the internal side [VS [OPS move] 6/9/2018]
Geographical reference: United States of America
Northern America > North America > United States of America; Western USA Alaska Aleutian Islands
Cultural groups: Inuit (Greenland); Inuit; Unangan
Person: Field collector William Henry Blackmore; PRM source Irene Marguerite Beasley
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1931
Date collected: By 1931
Acquisition information: Donated: 02/1941
Materials and processes: Material Bone
Dimensions: Length x Width x Depth: max 1352 x 48 x 31 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1941.2.96
Research and responses: The Blackmore Museum was formed by William Blackmore (1827-1878), mainly through his own visits to the USA between 1863 and 1878. I have therefore added William Blackmore as possibly the field collector for this record.
See Taylor, C. 1987. William Blackmore: a 19th-century Englishman’s contribution to American Indian ethnology. In C.F. Feest (eds) Indians and Europe: an interdisciplinary collection of essays. Aachen: Rader Verlag, pp. 321-336. [Dan Hicks 28/08/2012]

Search terms: Weapon, Fishing, Fishing Accessory, Spear

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