Unfinished Harpoon head
St. Lawrence Island Yupik
Arctic
Western Arctic
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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