Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased by MAI from the Fred Harvey Company (Indian arts dealers in the Southwest) in 1917 using funds donated by MAI trustee James B. Ford (1844-1928).
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Iñupiaq
- Previous owner
- Fred Harvey Company (Fred Harvey Indian Department), 1876-1966
- Seller
- Fred Harvey Company (Fred Harvey Indian Department), 1876-1966
- Presenter/funding source
- James Bishop Ford (James B. Ford), Non-Indian, 1844-1928
- Object Name
- Throwing stick/Atlatl
- Media/Materials
- Wood, ivory, animal gut/intestines
- Techniques
- Carved
- Object Type
- Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
