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Object Number
13-52-10/88591
Display Title
Worked bone (end of fore shaft ?)
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Harpoon foreshaft (?), carved bone, worked to blunt point, broken
Classification
- Harpoon
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Navugmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Alaska
/
North Slope Burough
Additional Geographic Terms
Point Barrow
Materials
Bone
Dimensions
Overall: 7.7 x 2 x 1.9 cm (3 1/16 x 13/16 x 3/4 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
88591
Provenance
Collector
Prof. Vilhjalmur Stefansson
(1911-1912)
Donor
John B. Stetson, Jr.
(1913)
Donor
Prof. Vilhjalmur Stefansson
(1913)
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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13-52-10/87942 | Fore shafts |
Harpoon
|
North Slope Burough
| |
| 21-14-10/87697 | Fore shaft |
Projectile Point
|
Northwest Territories
| |
|
Image Not Available
for Harpoon fore shafts
| 13-52-10/88527 | Harpoon fore shafts |
North Slope Burough
| ||
| 46-78-10/28064 | Arrow with loose wooden shaft and bone head with three barbs |
Harpoon
|
Alaska
| |
| 27-56-70/D2837.2 | Fore shaft |
Tools
|
Village of Boha
| |
|
| 27-56-70/D2837.1 | Fore shaft |
Edged
|
Village of Boha
| |
| 01-16-10/57023 | Fore shaft of harpoon |
Tools
Raw Material |
Nova Scotia
| |
|
| 27-56-70/D2837.3 | Fore shaft |
Tools
|
Village of Boha
| |
|
Image Not Available
for Harpoon, brass head with bone shaft
| 38-71-10/12976 | Harpoon, brass head with bone shaft |
Harpoon
|
Greenland
| |
| 13-52-10/87949 | Fore shaft |
Handle
|
North Slope Burough
| |
| 27-63-60/D3090.19 | Arrows, wooden fore shafts |
Arrow
|
Andaman Islands
| |
| 15-11-10/A2097 | Fore shafts (broken) |
Worked Wood
|
Burial Cave; Cave 1
|