Harpoon Head

53-54-235

From: United States of America | Alaska | Knight Island | Yakutat Bay | Old Town

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 53-54-235
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience United States of America | Alaska | Knight Island | Yakutat Bay | Old Town
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Locus House 8, fill, depth ca.49", on top of horizontal, collapsed wall of subsurface Pit 24 | Dark grey sand with charcoal fragments.
Period Old Town II
Section American
Materials Bone
Description

Brown bone. Varnished. In wax matrix, rounded base, 2 barbs, broken point. Unfinished? No line hole.

Length 5.9 cm
Width 1.1 cm
Credit Line University Museum / Bryn Mawr College Expedition to Alaska; Frederica de Laguna, 1953
Other Number 740 - Field No SF

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