Harpoon Point
Dene (Athabascan)
Subarctic
19th century
Bone
Overall: 8 11/16 × 11/16 in. (22 × 1.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III
181.2.26128
Geography
Place Found: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Hunting and Fishing
Research Area
Archaeology
Native American: Subarctic
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 11, NAS 11, Ancient Native Americans, Deborah Nichols, William Fitzhugh, Winter 2013
Provenance
Collected by Glover Street Hastings III, West Newton, Massachusetts and Bridgeton, Maine, 1920's-1930's; bequeathed to his daughter, Carlena Hastings Redfield (1888-1981), 1949; bequeathed to present collection [under the terms of her father's will], 1981.
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