Blade

Museum number:

2-6651

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Alternate number:

x-2844 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.167

Description:

Large heart shaped flint point, long stem. Chert.

Donor:

Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections

Collection place:

Pastolik, Wade Hampton Borough, Alaska

Verbatim coll. place:

Alaska; Pastolik

Culture or time period:

Alaskan Eskimo

Collector:

Rudolph Neumann

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Blades (stone tools)

Function:

1.1 Hunting and Fishing

Accession date:

1904

Context of use:

Harpoon blade.

Department:

Native US and Canada (except California)

Dimensions:

length 12.7 centimeters

Comment:

Remarks: cf. Murdoch, fig. 232, The Point Barrow Eskimo.

Loans:

S1974-1975 #30: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Allen Pastron (October 30, 1974–November 11, 1974)

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