book chapter
Aboriginal American harpoons: a study in ethnic distribution and invention
Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year ending June 30, 1900 • Washington • Published In 1902 • Pages: 189-304
By: Mason, Otis Tufton.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
A comparative study of harpoons based primarily on specimens in the National Museum. Only a description and illustration of a sea otter dart from Unalaska are included.
- 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.
- Ethnologist
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 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
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- none specified
- 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
- Otis Tufton Mason
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 14019906
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Aleuts