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Object Number
88-51-10/50109
Display Title
Feathered seal darts
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Harpoons, blunt bone tips, barbed points on shaft with leather, feather ends
Classification
- Harpoon
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1800-1888
Culture
- Nunivaarmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Alaska
/
Bethel Census Area
/
Nunivak Island
Materials
Wood, Bone, Ivory, Sinew, Feather
Dimensions
Overall: 130 x 2.3 x 1.5 cm (51 3/16 x 7/8 x 9/16 in.)
Quantity
2
Label on object
88-51-10/50109; WH Dall; 15697 / Seal lance of Nunviak I/ Eskimo / Alaska
Provenance
Collector
William Healey Dall
(1874)
Donor
Smithsonian Institution
(1888)
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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88-51-10/50370 | Seal darts |
Harpoon
|
North Slope Burough
| |
| 88-51-10/50106 | Feathered seal dart |
Harpoon
|
Nunivak Island
| |
| 88-51-10/50370.1 | Seal darts |
Harpoon
|
North Slope Burough
| |
| 04-28-10/63521 | Double feathered seal dart |
Harpoon
|
Bethel Census Area
| |
| 88-51-10/50110 | Seal darts |
Harpoon
|
Nunivak Island
| |
|
| 88-51-10/50370.2 | Seal darts |
Harpoon
|
North Slope Burough
| |
| 31-32-10/K112 | Seal dart. Used with throwing stick. |
Harpoon
|
Alaska
| |
| 36-73-10/6180 | Harpoon dart; used w/ throwing stick. One end feathered, the other w/ foreshaft. |
Harpoon
|
Alaska
| |
| 88-51-10/50120 | Seal dart |
Harpoon
|
Alaska
| |
| 88-51-10/50107.1 | Seal darts. |
Harpoon
|
United States
| |
| 88-51-10/50107 | Seal darts |
Harpoon
|
Nunivak Island
| |
| 31-32-10/K108 | Atlatl dart harpoons |
Harpoon
|
Alaska
|