Blubber hook
date: label: Date created
content: 1900-1920
name: label: Culture/People
content: Iñupiaq [Nuwukmiut/Point Barrow]
label: Previous owner
content: Boy's Missionary Society, Church of the Pilgrims
label: Previous owner
content: Long Island Historical Society (Brooklyn Historical Society [after 1985])
label: Donor
content: Long Island Historical Society (Brooklyn Historical Society [after 1985])
notes: label: Collection History
content: Collection history unknown; formerly in the Bühner collection of the Boy's Missionary Society, Church of the Pilgrims (Brooklyn, New York); presented by the Boy's Missionary Society to the Long Island Historical Society in 1898; lent to MAI by the Long Island Historical Society in 1920; donated to NMAI by the Brooklyn Historical Society in 2020.
label: Contact Us
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place: label: Place
content: Point Barrow; Arctic Slope Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
setName: label: See related items
content: Iñupiaq [Nuwukmiut/Point Barrow]
label: See related items
content: Tools and Equipment (General)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 10/3536
label: Barcode
content: 103536.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tools and Equipment (General)
label: Indigenous Term
content: niksiqaq
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Blubber hook
label: Media/Materials
content: Wood, animal gut/intestines, ivory
label: Techniques
content: Incised
label: Dimensions
content: 147.6 x 16.9 x 2.4 cm