Wooden spear with bound on triangular knapped stone head, hafted to a wooden shaft, with a tapering butt. The binding is plant fibre. [VS [OPS move] 6/9/2018]

Collection type: Object
Description: Wooden spear with bound on triangular knapped stone head, hafted to a wooden shaft, with a tapering butt. The binding is plant fibre. [VS [OPS move] 6/9/2018]
Geographical reference: United States of America
Northern America > North America > United States of America; Alaska Bering Strait Kotzebue Sound
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 Chert Stone, Material Spruce Wood Plant, Material Plant Fibre Yarn, Process Bound
Dimensions: Height: max 22 mm, Width: max 24 mm, Length: max 1958 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.1.726 Other numbers: 334
Research and responses: Duncan cat no 334.
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]

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