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Harpoon
Object Number 04-10-10/64238
Display Title Harpoon
Descriptions
Inventory Description Harpoon, carved wooden shaft, carved ivory tip, ivory hook attached with string
Classification
  • Raw Material
  • Harpoon
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Bering Strait Eskimo?
  • Kuigpagmiut?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Additional Geographic Terms Alaska?, Southern; Yukon?, Mouth of
Materials Wood, Ivory
Dimensions Overall: 188 x 4.6 x 4 cm (74 x 1 13/16 x 1 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 04-10-10/64238
Provenance
Collector Grace A. Nicholson (1904)
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (1904)

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