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Object Number
88-51-10/50242
Display Title
Barbed harpoon
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Harpoon, blunt bone end with barbed point, wrapped and tapered wood shaft
Classification
- Harpoon
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1800-1888
Culture
- Unaliqmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Alaska
Additional Geographic Terms
Norton Sound
Materials
Wood, Bone, Leather, Sinew
Dimensions
Overall: 165 x 5.4 x 3.1 cm (64 15/16 x 2 1/8 x 1 1/4 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
88-51-10/50242; Norton Sd. Nelson
Provenance
Collector
Edward William Nelson
(1876)
Donor
Smithsonian Institution
(1888)
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St. Michael
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| 88-51-10/50228 | Barbed seal harpoon |
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| 88-51-10/50234 | Barbed seal harpoon |
Harpoon
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St. Michael
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| 88-51-10/50232 | Barbed seal harpoon |
Harpoon
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| 2003.1.432 | Harpoon with blunt bone end, barbed point |
Harpoon
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| 88-51-10/50229 | Barbed seal harpoon |
Harpoon
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Alaska
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| 88-51-10/50233 | Barbed seal harpoon |
Harpoon
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St. Michael
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| 88-51-10/50239 | Barbed harpoons |
Harpoon
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St. Michael
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| 88-51-10/50230 | Barbed seal harpoon |
Harpoon
|
Alaska
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| 88-51-10/50239.1 | Barbed harpoons |
Harpoon
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St. Michael
| |
| 88-51-10/50235 | Barbed seal harpoon |
Harpoon
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