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Object Number
88-51-10/50185
Display Title
Knife or foreshaft with slate blade-point (lance)
Descriptions
Object Description
Knife or foreshaft with slate blade-point (lance)
Inventory Description
Spearpoint, stone point, wooden shaft, sinew lashing
Classification
- Spear
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1800-1888
Culture
- Unaliqmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Alaska
/
Nome Census Area
/
Unalakleet
Additional Geographic Terms
Norton Sound
Materials
Stone, Wood, Sinew
Dimensions
Overall: 30.4 x 2.5 x 1 cm (11 15/16 x 1 x 3/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
50185/ 38613/ A-8224/ Oonalakleet
Provenance
Collector
Unknown
(?)
Donor
Smithsonian Institution
(1888)
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