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Object Number
41-33-10/23478
Display Title
Seal harpoon head, foreshaft and toggle
Descriptions
Object Description
Seal harpoon head, foreshaft and toggle
Inventory Description
Harpoon head, carved bone, metal point - nailed, rawhide/sinew thong
Classification
- Harpoon
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- North Alaska Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Alaska
Materials
Bone, Metal, Rawhide, Sinew
Dimensions
Overall: 20.5 x 1.6 x 1 cm (8 1/16 x 5/8 x 3/8 in.)
Quantity
2
Label on object
23478
Provenance
Collector
Unknown
(?)
Donor
Unknown
(1941)
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|
North Slope Burough
| |
| 98-18-10/52141 | Seal harpoon head with leader |
Harpoon
|
Nome Census Area
| |
| 01-16-10/57024 | Harpoon head and line |
Harpoon
|
Nova Scotia
| |
| 46-36-10/28986 | Ivory harpoon foreshaft |
Harpoon
|
Alaska
| |
| 17-20-10/87240 | Harpoon toggle head |
Harpoon
|
Canada
| |
| 98-18-10/52142 | Toggle heads for walrus or seal harpoon |
Harpoon
|
Nome Census Area
| |
| 53-36-60/10139 | Harpoon line of seal or walrus strips - has walrus ivory head with steel blade |
Harpoon
|
Siberia
| |
| 41-33-10/23472 | Toggle head and foreline for whale harpoon |
Harpoon
|
Washington
| |
| 53-36-60/10150.1 | 2 ivory and iron toggles or harpoon heads for walrus hunting |
Harpoon
|
Siberia
| |
| 79-81-10/20108 | Harpoon |
Harpoon
|
North America
| |
| 41-33-10/23473 | Harpoon head and braided thong |
Harpoon
|
North America
| |
| 08-4-10/72943 | Toggle heads and forelines for whale harpoon |
Harpoon
|
Washington
|