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33-37-651

From: United States of America | Alaska | Palu:Tat

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 33-37-651
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Prehistoric Eskimo
Provenience United States of America | Alaska | Palu:Tat
Culture Area Arctic Culture Area
Locus C + D 4'
Section American
Materials Bone
Description

Made from limb-bone of small animal. The barbs are cut into rather sharp, natural, longitudinal ridge. The top barb is only a neck, the others are not much more detached. 8 barbs. Assymetry of specimen suggests it was part of multi-pronged dart.

Length 8 cm
Width 0.7 cm
Credit Line Danish National / University Museum Expedition; Kaj Birket-Smith and Frederica de Laguna, 1933
Other Number X-17 - Field No SF

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