Spearthrower, carved from a subtriangular piece of wood of keeled section, grooved and with an ivory peg (broken) at the narrow distal end to engage with the spear butt. [LM 16/10/2007]

Collection type: Object
Description: Spearthrower, carved from a subtriangular piece of wood of keeled section, grooved and with an ivory peg (broken) at the narrow distal end to engage with the spear butt. [LM 16/10/2007]
Long description: At the broader proximal end the implement is shaped to fit the right hand. A hole cut on the back for the index finger is just large enough for the fingernail to emerge on the front. There is an angle for the thumb, a bone peg to fit between the second and third fingers, and a rest for the second, third and fourth fingers. [LM 16/10/2007]
Geographical reference: United States of America
Northern America > North America > United States of America; Alaska Norton Sound Unalakleet
Cultural groups: Inuit (Greenland); Inuit
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1878
Date collected: By 1878
Acquisition information: Transferred: 11/03/1886
Materials and processes: Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Material Animal Bone, Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Process Carved
Dimensions: Length: max 470 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.1.722.2 Other numbers: 722a Ramsden coll 60
Research and responses: Unalakeet was only given in original computer entry [AP 25/2/99] * There is a note in the Ramsden collectors volume stating 'Retrospective numbers written in pencil down left hand column June 1975 E.S.G. Collated with A.M. but considerable problems encountered. All Ramsden seem to be in A.M.'

Search terms: Weapon, Hunting, Spear-thrower, Hunting accessory

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