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Object Number
07-8-10/75266
Display Title
Ivory plug ?
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Harpoon points, carved ivory?, barbed, perforated, strung together with leather
Classification
- Harpoon
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Western Arctic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Alaska
/
North Slope Burough
/
Flaxman Island
Materials
Ivory, Leather
Dimensions
Overall: 15.2 x 1.5 x 0.8 cm (6 x 9/16 x 5/16 in.)
Quantity
2
Label on object
75266
Provenance
Expedition
Anglo-American Polar Expedition
(1907)
Collector
Prof. Vilhjalmur Stefansson
(1907)
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