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Object Number 31-32-10/K101
Display Title Bird darts
Descriptions
Inventory Description Spears, 3 complete barbed trident spears, 2 incomplete, wood shaft
Classification
  • Spear
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Western Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Additional Geographic Terms Salabik River?
Dimensions Overall: 175.5 x 7 x 3 cm (69 1/8 x 2 3/4 x 1 3/16 in.)
Quantity 8
Label on object 31-32-10/K101; 334
Provenance
Collector Raymond Emerson (?)
Collector General George Crook
Donor Raymond Emerson (1931)

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