Harpoon Shaft

2003-43-235

From: Siberia | Amur River

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 2003-43-235
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Siberia | Amur River
Culture Area Siberia
Section American
Materials Wood | Gut String
Technique Carved | Lashed
Description

Long wooden shaft, possibly for a harpoon, narrow at back end and broadening toward top; several lashings of gut tied at various intervals along the shaft; fragment of a head or mount for a head glued at top end

Length 88.9 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1899.1.235 - Other Number | 88 (Civic Center 1957) - Other Number

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