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Harpoon heads
Object Number 13-52-10/88542
Display Title Harpoon heads
Descriptions
Inventory Description Projectile points, harpoons, carved bone, barbed, perforated, highly worn
Classification
  • Projectile Point
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Qayaigsigvigmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / North Slope Burough
Additional Geographic Terms Cape Smyth, Point Barrow, vicinity of
Materials Bone
Dimensions Overall: 14.5 x 2.6 x 1.4 cm (5 11/16 x 1 x 9/16 in.)
Quantity 4
Label on object 88542
Provenance
Collector Prof. Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1911-1912)
Donor Prof. Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1913)
Donor John B. Stetson, Jr. (1913)

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