a) Detachable bone harpoon head; barbed; 3 3/8” length; b) leaf-shaped brown slate point
Donor:
Lucy Bloomfield
Collection place:
Cape Nome, Nome Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Collector prospected in the Cape Nome area around 1910, objects presumed to be from this area.
Collector:
Harry W. Bloomfield
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Harpoons
Accession date:
1962
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
This object record was created because location data had been entered into the PHOEBE database without a corresponding object record. (J. Meehan 6/2003)
Loans:
S1970-1971 #88: Department of Geography (UC Berkeley) (February 25, 1971–March 3, 1971)