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Object Number 88-51-10/50232
Display Title Barbed seal harpoon
Descriptions
Inventory Description Harpoon, blunt wood end, wood shaft, barbed point attached with leather thong
Classification
  • Harpoon
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Unaliqmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Additional Geographic Terms Norton Sound
Dimensions Overall: 137 x 2.8 x 2.8 cm (53 15/16 x 1 1/8 x 1 1/8 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 88-51-10/50232
Provenance
Collector Edward William Nelson (1879)
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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