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Object Number 13-52-10/88534
Display Title Spear point
Descriptions
Inventory Description Projectile point, carved bone?, perforated, highly worn
Classification
  • Projectile Point
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Qayaigsigvigmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Additional Geographic Terms Cape Smyth, Point Barrow, vicinity of
Materials Bone?
Dimensions Overall: 5.9 x 1.2 x 0.5 cm (2 5/16 x 1/2 x 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 88534
Provenance
Collector Prof. Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1911-1912)
Donor Prof. Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1913)
Donor John B. Stetson, Jr. (1913)

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