Fishing Line Sinker

St. Lawrence Island Yupik or Iñupiaq
Western Arctic
Arctic

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collected about 1967

Antler or bone

Overall: 2 15/16 × 7/8 in. (7.5 × 2.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Sherman P. and Anne L. Haight Arctic Collection

168.96.24560

Geography

Place Made: St. Lawrence island, United States, North America

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Hunting and Fishing

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic

Not on view

Provenance

Purchased in Anchorage, Alaska by Sherman Post Haight (1889-1980) and Anne Pardee Lyon Haight (1891-1977), New York, New York, about 1962; given to the Stefansson Collection, Dartmouth College Library, 1962; transferred to the present collection, 1968.

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