Harpoon, spear or arrow point
St. Lawrence Island Yupik
Arctic
collected 1967
Slate
Overall: 2 3/4 × 1 3/16 in. (7 × 3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Sherman P. and Anne L. Haight Arctic Collection
168.96.24648
Geography
Place Found: St. Lawrence Island, Gambell, Bering Sea, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Artifact
Research Area
Archaeology
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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