A spear-head or harpoon-head made of bone. The bone ends in a point and has a hole drilled through it. [NC 22/09/2015]

Collection type: Object
Description: A spear-head or harpoon-head made of bone. The bone ends in a point and has a hole drilled through it. [NC 22/09/2015]
Geographical reference: United States of America
Northern America > North America > United States of America; Western USA Alaska North Slope Borough Point Franklin
Cultural groups: Inuit (Greenland); Inuit
Person: Field collector Frederick William Beechey; Field collector HMS Blossom; PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Date / Period: Date made: On or before 1826
Date collected: ?On or before 1826
Acquisition information: Transferred: 11/03/1886
Materials and processes: Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Process Drilled
Dimensions: Width: max 33 mm, Length: max 315 mm, Depth: max 19 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.1.684.4 Other numbers: 371 - 378 Other numbers: 684c
Research and responses: This object was examined by Jonathan King (MAA Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge). The visit took place 28/09/2015. [NC 23/11/2015]
Most other Beechey items transferred from the Ashmolean were dated 1826. Two objects have been numbered 1886.1.684 .3 and .4 but unfortunately it was impossible from the original computer entries to work out whether in fact they should have been numbered 1886.1.684 .3 .4 or .5 [AP 25/1/99]
Please note that there was no further information about Beechey on the Donor Index cards at the Ashmolean Museum, Department of Antiquities. [L.Ph 23/3/2004]

Search terms: Weapon, Hunting, Fishing, Spear-head, Hunting accessory, Fishing Accessory, Harpoon-head

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