Arrow Head Or Tip
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Jan 1869
name: label: Donor Name
content: Roderick R. MacFarlane
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Fishing spear point (iron)."
label: Notes
content: Object is stored with its 19th century museum exhibit mount.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/117 , retrieved 2-10-2020: Iron tip for an arrow. The tang has been shaped by folding and hammering the edges.The Smithsonian Institution catalogue identifies this as a tip for a fish spear; however, it is similar in size and shape to iron tips used on arrows in the MacFarlane Collection.
label: Notes
content: There a barb on each side of the tang of this arrow head.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Northwest Territories, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit, Inuvialuk (Inuvialuit)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 69A00012
label: USNM Number
content: E7708-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Arrow