Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased by George Heye circa 1905 from M.C. Bruce (possibly Miner Bruce [1850-1919], an Alaskan fur trader and artifact dealer).
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Iñupiaq [Nuwukmiut/Point Barrow]
- Previous owner
- M. C. Bruce, Non-Indian
- Seller
- M. C. Bruce, Non-Indian
- Object Name
- Net weight/Netsinker
- Media/Materials
- Stone, baleen
- Techniques
- Perforated
- Object Type
- Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
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