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Throwing sticks
Object Number 88-51-10/50210
Display Title Throwing sticks
Descriptions
Inventory Description Tool, wood, handle with finger stops, grooved both sides, tapering, notched
Classification
  • Tools
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Unaliqmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / <County> / St. Michael
Additional Geographic Terms Norton Sound
Materials Wood, Bone
Dimensions Overall: 47.5 x 7.5 x 1.6 cm (18 11/16 x 2 15/16 x 5/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 50210/ [crossed out] 32998/ Norton Sd./ Nelson ## III.
Provenance
Collector Edward William Nelson
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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