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Object Number 03-1-10/62775
Display Title Throwing stick
Descriptions
Inventory Description Carved wood implement, tapered at 1 end, carved ivory human figure and pegs
Classification
  • Raw Material
  • Tools
Department Ethnographic
Date ca. 1900
Culture
  • Nunivaarmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / Nunivak Island
Materials Wood, Ivory
Dimensions Overall: 49.5 x 9 x 3.2 cm (19 1/2 x 3 9/16 x 1 1/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 62775
Provenance
Collector Unknown (?)
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (1903)

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