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Object Number 17-11-30/87041
Display Title Yahgan bone harpoon
Descriptions
Inventory Description Harpoon head, carved bone, pointed, barbed cutout, tip broken
Classification
  • Harpoon
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Yahgan
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Chile / <State> / Beagle Island
South America / Argentina / Tierra del Fuego / Beagle Island
Additional Geographic Terms Tierra del Fuego
Materials Bone
Dimensions Overall: 29.1 x 2.6 x 1.8 cm (11 7/16 x 1 x 11/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 87041/ Native [illegible]

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