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Object Number 88-51-10/50233
Display Title Barbed seal harpoon
Descriptions
Inventory Description Harpoons, blunt bone ends, barbed projectile point, split feather ends
Classification
  • Harpoon
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Unaliqmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / <County> / St. Michael
Additional Geographic Terms Norton Sound
Dimensions Overall: 129.8 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm (51 1/8 x 1 x 1 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 88-51-10/50233; 33903 / Norton Sd. Nelson; 34015
Provenance
Collector Edward William Nelson
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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