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Object Number 04-28-10/63522
Display Title Bird dart
Descriptions
Inventory Description Harpoon?, long bone point, serrated edges, 3 pronged points at midpoint, lashed
Classification
  • Harpoon
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Kuigpagmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Additional Geographic Terms Bering Sea; Lower Yukon River
Dimensions Overall: 124 x 7.8 x 5 cm (48 13/16 x 3 1/16 x 1 15/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 63522
Provenance
Collector Rev. Charles Lemon Hall
Donor Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley (1904)

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