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Object Number 94-34-30/54393
Display Title Bone harpoon point
Descriptions
Inventory Description Harpoon point, carved bone, barbed each side, paddle-like end
Classification
  • Harpoon
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Yahgan
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Chile
Additional Geographic Terms Straits of Magellan
Materials Bone
Dimensions Overall: 20.3 x 2.9 x 1.2 cm (8 x 1 1/8 x 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 54393/ [something illegible in pencil]

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