Harpoon / model

Description

Model of a harpoon of walrus ivory and wood, with a leather line and float tied on with gut: North America, Canada, Baffin Island, Cape Dorset, Inuit, collected by John N.S. Buchan, 1938 - 1939

Museum reference

K.1997.442

Collection

Americas

Object name

Harpoon / model

Production information

Cape Dorset, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, North America

Date

1938 - 1939

Style / Culture

Inuit

Materials

Walrus ivory, Wood, Leather

Physical description

Walrus ivory and wood; leather line, float tied on with gut

Associations

Scott Polar Research Institute
Collector and owner: Buchan, John Norman Stuart, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 1911 - 1996
Hudson's Bay Company

References

Tweedsmuir, Lord, Hudson's Bay Trader