Bird trident

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Object Number 88-51-10/50243

Display Title Bird trident

Descriptions

Object Description Bird trident

Inventory Description Spear, trident of barbed spears at top, lasted to wood shaft, sinew wrapping

Classification

Spear

Department Ethnographic

Date 1800-1888

Culture

Unaliqmiut

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

North America / United States / Alaska

Additional Geographic Terms Norton Sound

Materials Wood, Bone, Sinew, Fiber, Leather

Dimensions Overall: 172.5 x 3.9 x 4.7 cm (67 15/16 x 1 9/16 x 1 7/8 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 88-51-10/50243; 33842 / Norton Sd. Nelson

Provenance

Collector Edward William Nelson (1876)

Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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