harpoon arrows

Two harpoon arrows.

6.373i: Harpoon arrow for sea-otter with wooden shaft covered with brown-red pigment.
3 feather flights attached with textile cord. Bone foreshaft attached to shaft with section of sinew and bound with textile cord and decorated with incised lines (some infilled with red pigment). Length of plaited textile cord attached to shaft and socketed, bone head with 3 barbs.6.373ii: Harpoon arrow for sea-otter with wooden shaft covered with brown-red pigment. 3 feather flights attached with textile cord. Bone foreshaft attached to shaft with section of sinew and bound with textile cord and decorated with incised lines (some infilled with red pigment). Length of plaited textile cord attached to shaft and socketed, bone head with 3 barbs.

6.373ii: Harpoon arrow for sea-otter with wooden shaft covered with brown-red pigment.
3 feather flights attached with textile cord. Bone foreshaft attached to shaft with section of sinew and bound with textile cord and decorated with incised lines (some infilled with red pigment). Length of plaited textile cord attached to shaft and socketed, bone head with 3 barbs.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
6.373
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 850 mm x 30 mm x 30 mm; overall: 880 mm x 40 mm x 40 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
wood; bone; textile; feather; sinew
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
In storage
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