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Object Number
01-16-10/57023
Display Title
Fore shaft of harpoon
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Carved ivory tusk implement, 3 perforations and metal rivet in end, mended.
Classification
- Tools
- Raw Material
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Northeast
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
Canada
/
Nova Scotia
Additional Geographic Terms
Halifax
Materials
Ivory, Metal
Dimensions
Overall: 47.6 x 3.4 x 2.4 cm (18 3/4 x 1 5/16 x 15/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
57023
Provenance
Collector
David I. Bushnell, Sr.
(1892-1894)
Donor
Donated by
David I. Bushnell, Jr.
(1901)
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for Harpoon fore shafts
| 13-52-10/88527 | Harpoon fore shafts |
North Slope Burough
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| 27-56-70/D2837.2 | Fore shaft |
Tools
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Village of Boha
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| 53-36-60/10141.3 | 2 harpoon shafts of wood with ivory sockets |
Tools
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Siberia
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| 53-36-60/10141.4 | 2 harpoon shafts of wood with ivory sockets |
Tools
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Siberia
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| 27-56-70/D2837.3 | Fore shaft |
Tools
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Village of Boha
| |
| 53-36-60/10141.2 | 2 harpoon shafts of wood with ivory sockets |
Tools
|
Siberia
| |
| 13-52-10/88591 | Worked bone (end of fore shaft ?) |
Harpoon
|
North Slope Burough
| |
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| 53-36-60/10141.1 | 2 harpoon shafts of wood with ivory sockets |
Tools
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Siberia
| |
| 21-14-10/87697 | Fore shaft |
Projectile Point
|
Northwest Territories
| |
|
Image Not Available
for Fore shafts
| 13-52-10/87940 | Fore shafts |
North Slope Burough
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| 13-52-10/87942 | Fore shafts |
Harpoon
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North Slope Burough
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| 980-1-10/58245 | Harpoon (?) point. Metal blade, wood shaft with 3 incised lines & ivory fin. |
Harpoon
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Canada
Alaska? |