Fish spear

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Object Number 04-28-10/63519

Display Title Fish spear

Descriptions

Inventory Description Spear, 3 bone points attached with fiber and sinew to band painted wood shaft

Classification

Spear

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Kuigpagmiut

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

North America / United States / Alaska

Additional Geographic Terms Bering Sea; Lower Yukon River

Materials Wood, Bone, Ivory, Fiber, Sinew, Pigment

Dimensions Overall: 164.4 x 5.9 x 1.2 cm (64 3/4 x 2 5/16 x 1/2 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 04-28-10/63519

Provenance

Collector Rev. Charles Lemon Hall

Donor Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley (1904)

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