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Object Number
09-8-10/74636
Display Title
Fish arrow
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Harpoon, carved bone shaft, barbed, obsidian point, notched, lashed with sinew
Classification
- Hat
- Harpoon
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Hupa
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
California
Materials
Bone, Obsidian, Sinew
Dimensions
Overall: 14.3 x 2.8 x 0.7 cm (5 5/8 x 1 1/8 x 1/4 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
74636
Provenance
Provenance
De La Guerra family
(prior to 1908)
Collector
Grace A. Nicholson
(1908 - 1908)
Donor
Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow
(1908 - 1908)
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 94-57-10/R424 | Retrieving arrow head of bone with stone point |
Harpoon
|
California
| |
| 94-57-10/R423 | Retrieving arrow head of bone with stone point |
Harpoon
|
California
| |
| 969-1-10/49877 | Uniserially barbed harpoon |
Harpoon
|
North America
| |
| 67-10-10/262 | Spear points of bone |
Harpoon
|
North America
| |
| 04-10-10/64241 | Spear for small fish |
Harpoon
|
Alaska
| |
| 87-15-10/45768 | Point of salmon spear |
Harpoon
|
British Columbia
| |
| 08-1-10/73793 | Part of salmon spear |
Harpoon
|
Canada
| |
| 09-27-30/75009 | Single serrated fish and bird spear |
Harpoon
|
Chile
| |
| 18-8-10/87283 | End of fish spear |
Harpoon
|
Canada
| |
| 09-27-30/75010 | Double serrated fish and bird spear |
Harpoon
|
Chile
| |
| 985-27-10/59282 | Barbed Eskimo spear foreshaft. Carved bone. Prongs along one side. |
Harpoon
Raw Material |
Northwest Territories
| |
| 41-33-10/23478 | Seal harpoon head, foreshaft and toggle |
Harpoon
|
Alaska
|