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Object Number 88-51-10/50246
Display Title Seal harpoon
Descriptions
Object Description Seal harpoon
Inventory Description Harpoon, blunt bone tip, barbed point lashed to painted wood shaft, feather end
Classification
  • Harpoon
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Aglurmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Additional Geographic Terms Bristol Bay
Dimensions Overall: 119.5 x 3.6 x 2.6 cm (47 1/16 x 1 7/16 x 1 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 88-51-10/50246; 11349
Provenance
Collector Vincent Collier (1870)
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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