Harpoon part/fragment (Image withheld)

Culture/People
Labrador Inuit
Collector
Edmund B. Delabarre (Edmund Burke Delabarre/E. B. Delabarre), Non-Indian, 1863-1945
Previous owner
Edmund B. Delabarre (Edmund Burke Delabarre/E. B. Delabarre), Non-Indian, 1863-1945
Previous seller
Edmund B. Delabarre (Edmund Burke Delabarre/E. B. Delabarre), Non-Indian, 1863-1945
Previous owner
Dr. Frank G. Speck (Frank Gouldsmith Speck/F.G. Speck/FGS), Non-Indian, 1881-1950
Seller
Dr. Frank G. Speck (Frank Gouldsmith Speck/F.G. Speck/FGS), Non-Indian, 1881-1950
Collection History
Collected in 1900 by Edmund B. Delabarre (1863-1945, a Brown University psychology professor who led a scientific expedition to Labrador for Harvard University and Brown); purchased by anthropologist Frank G. Speck (1881-1950) from Edmund Delabarre, probably between 1920 and 1924; purchased by MAI from Frank Speck in 1924.
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Place
Grave near Cape Chidley; Nachvak Bay, Cape Chidley; Labrador; Newfoundland and Labrador; Canada
See related items
Labrador Inuit
Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
Data Source
National Museum of the American Indian
Catalog Number
12/7525
Barcode
127525.000
Object Type
Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
Object Name
Harpoon part/fragment (Image withheld)
Media/Materials
Ivory
Techniques
Carved
GUID
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6a88083bb-a9ea-4ebf-9563-e8d4051c6844
Record ID
NMAI_136748