Ivory tipped harpoon with leather strapping

Ivory tipped harpoon with leather strapping

Fishing

Fishing & Trapping

Harpoons--Alaska

Fishing & Hunting gear--1885-1911

Yupik Eskimoes

Hunting

Ivory tipped harpoon with leather strapping. The leather strapping is wrapped around the harpoon and terminates at the end with the ivory where it is attached to a bone or wooden point. Tip has been colored with black pigment.

unknown

John Kilbuck collection

Ottawa University (Kansas) Archives

c. 1885-1911

Kilbuck, John

Ottawa University

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87.500 cm length x 1.700 cm diameter

Artifact

OU 1911.002a

Alaska

c. 1885-1911