Culture/People:

Iñupiaq [Nuwukmiut/Point Barrow]  Search this

Previous owner:

Boy's Missionary Society, Church of the Pilgrims  Search this

Long Island Historical Society (Brooklyn Historical Society [after 1985])  Search this

Donor:

Long Island Historical Society (Brooklyn Historical Society [after 1985])  Search this

Object Name:

Harpoon

Media/Materials:

Ivory, iron point

Techniques:

Carved

Object Type:

Hunting/Fishing/Warfare

Place:

Point Barrow; Arctic Slope Native Corporation; Alaska; USA

Collection History:

Collection history unknown; formerly in the Bühner collection of the Boy's Missionary Society, Church of the Pilgrims (Brooklyn, New York); presented by the Boy's Missionary Society to the Long Island Historical Society in 1898; lent to MAI by the Long Island Historical Society in 1920; donated to NMAI by the Brooklyn Historical Society in 2020.

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Catalog Number:

10/3534

Barcode:

103534.000

See related items:

Iñupiaq [Nuwukmiut/Point Barrow]

Hunting/Fishing/Warfare

Data Source:

National Museum of the American Indian

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6b1309445-15f0-4299-a678-4f5d68a12cfc

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:NMAI_111779