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Object Number 35-123-10/5200
Display Title Barbed harpoon
Descriptions
Inventory Description Metal, iron harpoon, three single barbs
Classification
  • Harpoon
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Passamaquoddy
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Maine
Additional Geographic Terms Bangor, Coastal
Materials Iron
Dimensions Overall: 35.3 x 2.9 x 3 cm (13 7/8 x 1 1/8 x 1 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 35-123-10/5200
Provenance
Collector Manly Hardy (?)
Donor Paul F. Eckstorm (1935)

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