Katmai Harpoon Point

This is an ancestral bilaterally barbed harpoon point from the coast of Katmai National Park and Preserve on the Alaska Peninsula. Ancestral Alutiit used these harpoons to harvest sea mammals. The triangular hole indicates a long, leather line likely attached this harpoon head to a sealskin float. T...

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Published: Zenodo 2017
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Alaska
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10305122
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spelling ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:10305122 2024-09-15T17:38:33+00:00 Katmai Harpoon Point alaska_nps_geology 2017-11-27 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10305122 unknown Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10305121 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10305122 oai:zenodo.org:10305122 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution 1.0 Generic https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/legalcode info:eu-repo/semantics/other 2017 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1030512210.5281/zenodo.10305121 2024-07-27T04:05:11Z This is an ancestral bilaterally barbed harpoon point from the coast of Katmai National Park and Preserve on the Alaska Peninsula. Ancestral Alutiit used these harpoons to harvest sea mammals. The triangular hole indicates a long, leather line likely attached this harpoon head to a sealskin float. The socketed base of this harpoon head demonstrates a compression fit kept this harpoon head in the shaft until it was driven into the animal. About 12 cm in length. Source: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab Other/Unknown Material alutiit Alaska Zenodo
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description This is an ancestral bilaterally barbed harpoon point from the coast of Katmai National Park and Preserve on the Alaska Peninsula. Ancestral Alutiit used these harpoons to harvest sea mammals. The triangular hole indicates a long, leather line likely attached this harpoon head to a sealskin float. The socketed base of this harpoon head demonstrates a compression fit kept this harpoon head in the shaft until it was driven into the animal. About 12 cm in length. Source: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab
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