harpoon
- Museum number
- Am,NWC.76
- Description
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Whaling harpoon-head (on line) made of bone, shell (mussel), bark (cedar), gum (spruce), cord (sinew and fibre).
- Production date
- 1800 (before)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 32 centimetres
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Width: 25 centimetres ((coiled))
- Location
- On display (G26/dc6)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1979-1980 15 Feb-29 Sept, London, Museum of Mankind; Captain Cook in the South Seas
1999 25 Jun-Present, BM Room 26; Gallery of North America, Case: "The Mowachaht of Vancouver Island"
- Acquisition date
- 1753-1800
- Acquisition notes
- Perhaps collected on the Cook or Colnett voyages.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am,NWC.76
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Am17??D8.76 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Am1780,1110.2 (original collection no. ?)
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Miscellaneous number: Am1790,0219.3 (original Register no. ?)
