Double barbed harpoon tip with a hole through the tang
Unknown people (Alaska Native)
Arctic
19th century
Bone
Overall: 3 3/4 × 11/16 in. (9.5 × 1.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III
181.2.26130
Geography
Place Found: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Hunting and Fishing
Research Area
Archaeology
Not on view
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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