Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased by MAI from Joseph Chilberg (1850-1939, a Native artifact dealer in Nome, Alaska) in 1916.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Bering Strait Iñupiaq [Diomedes]
- Previous owner
- Joseph Chilberg, Non-Indian, 1850-1939
- Seller
- Joseph Chilberg, Non-Indian, 1850-1939
- Object Name
- Throwing stick/Atlatl weight
- Media/Materials
- Fossil mammoth ivory
- Techniques
- Carved
- Object Type
- Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
