Unfinished Harpoon head

St. Lawrence Island Yupik
Arctic
Western Arctic

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collected 1967

Ivory

Overall: 2 3/8 × 9/16 in. (6 × 1.5 cm)

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

168.96.24603

Geography

Place Made: Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Hunting and Fishing

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic

Not on view

Provenance

Purchased in Gambell, Alaska by Sherman Post Haight (1889-1980) and Anne Pardee Lyon Haight (1891-1977), New York, New York, Summer 1967; given to the Stefansson Collection, Dartmouth College Library, 1967; transferred to the present collection, 1968.

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