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Bone point
Object Number 13-52-10/88022
Display Title Bone point
Descriptions
Inventory Description Barbed point, bone
Classification
  • Projectile Point
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Additional Geographic Terms Shooting Slalion; Birnink; Cape Barrow, 6m. NW of; Cape Smyth, 6m. NE of
Materials Bone
Dimensions Overall: 8.2 x 1.1 x 0.5 cm (3 1/4 x 7/16 x 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 88022
Provenance
Collector Prof. Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1911-1912 - 1913)
Donor John B. Stetson, Jr. (1913)
Donor Prof. Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1911-1912 - 1913)

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