Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of J. Carson Brevoort (1818-1887, a collector of rare books and coins and president of the Long Island Historical Society); presented to the Long Island Historical Society in 1887; lent by the Long Island Historical Society to MAI in 1920; donated to NMAI by the Brooklyn Historical Society in 2020.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Baffinland Inuit
- Previous owner
- J. Carson Brevoort (James Carson Brevoort), Non-Indian, 1818-1887
- Long Island Historical Society (Brooklyn Historical Society [after 1985])
- Donor
- Long Island Historical Society (Brooklyn Historical Society [after 1985])
- Object Name
- Spear foreshaft
- Media/Materials
- Animal Bone
- Techniques
- Carved
- Object Type
- Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
