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Object Number
21-14-10/87697
Display Title
Fore shaft
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Projectile point and foreshaft, metal point nailed to carved bone shaft
Classification
- Projectile Point
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Copper Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
Canada
/
Northwest Territories
Materials
Bone, Metal
Dimensions
Overall: 18.9 x 1.7 x 0.7 cm (7 7/16 x 11/16 x 1/4 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
87697
Provenance
Provenance
Alfred H. Anderson
(1920-1921)
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North Slope Burough
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| 27-56-70/D2837.1 | Fore shaft |
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Village of Boha
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Projectile Point
|
Northwest Territories
| |
| 13-52-10/87942 | Fore shafts |
Harpoon
|
North Slope Burough
| |
|
| 27-56-70/D2837.3 | Fore shaft |
Tools
|
Village of Boha
| |
|
| 27-56-70/D2837.2 | Fore shaft |
Tools
|
Village of Boha
| |
| 01-16-10/57023 | Fore shaft of harpoon |
Tools
Raw Material |
Nova Scotia
| |
| 27-63-60/D3090.19 | Arrows, wooden fore shafts |
Arrow
|
Andaman Islands
| |
| 13-52-10/87949 | Fore shaft |
Handle
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North Slope Burough
| |
| 27-63-60/D3081 | Arrow fore shaft |
Arrow
|
Andaman Islands
| |
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| 27-63-60/D3090.16 | Arrows, wooden fore shafts |
Arrow
|
Andaman Islands
| |
|
| 27-63-60/D3090.15 | Arrows, wooden fore shafts |
Arrow
|
Andaman Islands
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