book chapter
Toggle harpoon heads from the Aleutian Islands
Fieldiana. Anthropology. • 36 (2) • Published In 1946 • Pages: 15-23
By: Quimby, George Irving.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
A description of harpoon heads contained in a collection of Aleut artifacts presented to the Chicago Natural History Museum by Lt. Alvin Cahn, U.S.N.R. The descriptions of the specimens are of some value, but the author's interpretation is not considered particularly useful. The specimens were bulldozed and no records kept and subsequent archaeological research has shown that the time-period classification of these items is erroneous. The illustrations and bibliography have not been reproduced for the files.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Weapons
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Aleut
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2007
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Unknown
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Leila S. Small ; 1950-1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1942-1944
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 0000-1700
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Unalaska Island, Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- George Irving Quimby
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 06020329
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Aleuts