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Stabbing knives
Object Number 88-51-10/50072
Display Title Stabbing knives
Descriptions
Inventory Description Harpoon or harpoon point, wood shaft, metal point, sinewithrawhide lashing
Classification
  • Harpoon
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Nunatkoromiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Additional Geographic Terms Kashunuk
Materials Wood, Metal, Sinew, Rawhide
Dimensions Overall: 22.8 x 2.7 x 1.7 cm (9 x 1 1/16 x 11/16 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 50072, 37933 & 2879 [crossed out], Kash; 50072, 38705 [crossed out], Kash
Provenance
Collector Edward William Nelson
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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