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Object Number
88-51-10/50237
Display Title
Bird harpoon with side prongs
Descriptions
Indigenous Term
Nu-yot
Inventory Description
Spear, barbed point lashed to wood shaft, trident barbs at side, broken
Classification
- Spear
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1800-1888
Culture
- Unaliqmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Alaska
/
<County>
/
St. Michael
Additional Geographic Terms
Norton Sound
Materials
Wood, Bone, Sinew
Dimensions
Overall: 160 x 5.4 x 5 cm (63 x 2 1/8 x 1 15/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
88-51-10/50237
Provenance
Collector
Edward William Nelson
(1876)
Donor
Smithsonian Institution
(1888)
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