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Object Number
67-10-10/262
Display Title
Spear points of bone
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Harpoon heads, carved bone, barbed, lashed with sinew, points missing
Classification
- Harpoon
Department
Ethnographic
Date
before 1790
Culture
- Northwest Coast
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
Additional Geographic Terms
Northwest Coast
Materials
Bone, Sinew, Reed, Resin
Dimensions
Overall: 10.9 x 2.9 x 2.1 cm (4 5/16 x 1 1/8 x 13/16 in.)
Quantity
2
Label on object
67-10-10/262 & 262a / MHS & 262 / MHS
Provenance
Collector
Capt. James Magee
(ca. 1790)
Donor
Massachusetts Historical Society
(1867)
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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
| |
| 87-15-10/45768 | Point of salmon spear |
Harpoon
|
British Columbia
| |
| 67-10-10/261 | Spear point of bone |
Harpoon
|
North America
| |
| 41-33-10/23480 | Bone or ivory harpoon/spear point; row of small barbs |
Harpoon
|
Alaska
| |
| 985-27-10/59282 | Barbed Eskimo spear foreshaft. Carved bone. Prongs along one side. |
Raw Material
Harpoon |
Northwest Territories
| |
| 2002.1.1943 | 9 bone and ivory harpoon and trident points |
Harpoon
| ||
| 17-17-10/87160 | Salmon spear points; mes |
Harpoon
|
Gwa I
| |
| 08-1-10/73793 | Part of salmon spear |
Harpoon
|
Canada
| |
| 67-10-10/258 | Spear point of bone |
Harpoon
|
North America
| |
| 67-9-10/173R | Ivory spear or harpoon points |
Harpoon
|
Asia
| |
| 10-21-10/76658 | Points for salmon spear, modern form of old type |
Harpoon
|
California
|