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Object Number 80-21-60/22437
Display Title Harpoon head
Descriptions
Object Description Harpoon head
Inventory Description Harpoon, flat iron blade, carved bone, barbed setting, fiber rope attached
Classification
  • Harpoon
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Ainu
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / Japan
Dimensions Overall: 22.1 x 2.9 x 1.3 cm (8 11/16 x 1 1/8 x 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Collector Prof. Edward Sylvester Morse (1879 - 1880)

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