Harpoon, Sea Otter - Ayaquq
Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center > Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center Alutiiq/Sugpiaq Ethnographic Collection
1988.048.006
Wood/Plant material;Animal materials;Sinew;Human-made
Height: .5"
Width: .5"
Length: 31.25"
19th century
Possibly Alutiiq, ca. 19th century Collected by the donor's grandfather, Harlow Harvey Amos Hastings, who was a lawyer in Southeast Alaska (Juneau ?) in 1892. Collected by Harlow H. A. Hastings in 1892; gift of D. D. Hastings.
Sea otter harpoon arrow made of a wooden shaft, with bands of red pigment at the fletching and near the foreshaft. The nock is large and typical of the type. The foreshaft is octagonal and bone. The foreshaft is lashed to the shaft with braided sinew line. Beneath the line next to the bone is a single layer of paper, on which are printed English words. There is no arrowhead, and no fletching.