Harpoon

Description

Whale and walrus harpoon, with spruce shaft, walrus bone foreshaft, walrus ivory point secured to the shaft and foreshaft, ice-pick, finger-rest and line-catch: North America, USA, Alaska, Point Barrow, Arctic, Inupiat, 1820s

Museum reference

A.UC.234

Collection

Americas

Object name

Harpoon

Production information

Unknown
Point Barrow, Alaska, USA, North America

Date

1820s

Style / Culture

Iñupiaq

Materials

Spruce, Walrus bone, Walrus ivory, Baleen

Collection place(s)

Point Barrow, Alaska, USA, North America

Associations

Beechey Expedition
Beechey Expedition

Exhibitions

• Living Lands (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

On display

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