Harpoon model
- Museum number:
- 2-46992
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020046992
- Alternate number:
- 3 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2526
- Description:
- Model of sliding harpoon. Wood shaft, ivory foreshaft; ivory harpoon tip; caribou skin thong line; wire; metal not aboriginal.
- Donor:
- Nelson H.H. Graburn and University Appropriation
- Collection place:
- Povungnituk, Quebec, Canada
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Canada; Quebec; Povungnituk
- Culture or time period:
- Canadian cultures and Inuit
- Maker or artist:
- Juanasiluk Ivqumiak
- Collector:
- Nelson H.H. Graburn
- Collection date:
- June 1968 - July 1968
- Taxon:
- Rangifer tarandus caribou
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Harpoons
- Accession date:
- 1969
- Context of use:
- Used by men in spring and early summer. Man lying down slides it over ice at basking seals. Obsolete 1910-20 (replaced by guns).
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 47.7 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-