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Object Number 88-51-10/50231
Display Title Barbed seal harpoon
Descriptions
Inventory Description Harpoons, bone tip on wood shaft, barbed projectile points attached with leather
Classification
  • Fishing and trapping
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Unaliqmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / Nome Census Area / Unalakleet
Additional Geographic Terms Norton Sound
Dimensions Overall: 152 x 2.5 x 1 cm (59 13/16 x 1 x 3/8 in.)
Quantity 4
Label on object 88-51-10/50231; 34039 / Norton sd Nelson/ 4111c / 36090 / 200 / Alaska
Provenance
Collector Edward William Nelson
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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