Harpoon Socket
50-51-6
From: United States of America | Alaska | Cape Prince of Wales
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 50-51-6 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Eskimo |
| Provenience | United States of America | Alaska | Cape Prince of Wales |
| Culture Area | Arctic Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Bone |
| Technique | Carved |
| Description | Bone. Relatively rectangular. One end flat with notch for foreshaft. Other end has a tapering wedge-shaped butt for attachment to shaft. Two holes in butt. One hole near butt end which intersects with a third hole drilled on one side of wedge where it begins to emerge from the body. |
| Height | 3 cm |
| Length | 21.1 cm |
| Width | 4.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Bering Strait Expedition, F. G. Rainey, 1950 |
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