Harpoon Head Item Number: E 1910.33 from the MAA: University of Cambridge
A harpoon head with horn socket and iron spike. The iron is mounted onto the horn by binding with fine string, attached also is a length of string, the harpoon line, which is neatly coiled.; Good
Provenance is given as Kwakiutl. The original European tribal names and, where possible, current tribal names have both been given in separate GLT fields.; Harpoon heads of this type were used by the Nootka, see J.C.H.King' s Artificial Curiosities 1981, page 91, monochrome plate 83, for spearing salmon.; Exhibited: Old Anthropological displays at CUMAA, case 34 and 35, dismantled 14081986.