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Object Number 88-51-10/50239
Display Title Barbed harpoons
Descriptions
Object Description Barbed harpoons
Inventory Description Harpoon, pointed one end, other blunt bone with barbed arow attached
Classification
  • Harpoon
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / <County> / St. Michael
Additional Geographic Terms Norton Sound
Dimensions Overall: 175.5 x 5.5 x 3 cm (69 1/8 x 2 3/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 88-51-10/50239; 29790/ Norton Sd Alaska / Turner
Provenance
Collector Lucien M. Turner (1876)
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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