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Toggle head and line for harpoon
Toggle head and line for harpoon
Object Number 94-25-10/52381
Display Title Toggle head and line for harpoon
Descriptions
Inventory Description Organic, line (animal skin?) with worked, organic hook ? with metal blade, used
Classification
  • Fishing and trapping
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Greenland Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Greenland
Additional Geographic Terms Greenland, north; Whale Sound
Materials Bone, Animal skin, Vegetable fiber, Metal, Leather, Bone?, Ivory?
Dimensions Overall: 36.2 x 25 x 10 cm (14 1/4 x 9 13/16 x 3 15/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 52381
Provenance
Provenance Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary (1892)

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