Harpoon foreshaft

Marks or LabelsLabel, handwritten with pencil: "Maxwell Dunbar Canadian Vice Consul to Greenland 1941. Lab. Esk. Harpoon head penis bone of whale"

Date 1935-1940

Medium / Technique Bone

Dimensions3,6 x 37,3 x 2,7 cm

ClassificationTools & Equipment for Science & Technology - Armaments - Edged Weapons

CultureIndigenous: Inuit, Labrador Inuit

Origin Nunatsiavut (Labrador), Canada

Geocultural Area Eastern Arctic

Object NumberME940.20

DivisionIndigenous Cultures - Historical Objects

CollectionMcCord

CreditGift of Dr. Maxwell Dunbar

Status

Not on view

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