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Harpoon head Harpoon head

Harpoon head, of barbed bone, secured with sinew, birch bark and resin to a wooden socket, with a line of twisted strands of animal fibre coiled round with cedar bark: North America, Canada, Vancouver Island, Nuu-chah-nulth, late 18th century

Harpoon head Harpoon head

Barbed harpoon head, of bone, with line of wrapped sinew attached: North America, Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver Island, Nuu-chah-nulth, late 18th century

Dress, boy's Dress, boy's

Boy's dress of reindeer skin: North America, Canada, Norway House, Manitoba, Denesuline, 1858

Moccasin Moccasin

Moccasin of tanned moose skin, with tanned caribou skin vamps: North America, Canada, Alberta, Fort Chipewyan, c. 1859

Legging Legging

Legging, one of a pair, of tanned smoked caribou skin with thong fringes at the seams, sewn with sinew, part of a woman's summer outfit: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Great Slave Lake, Tłı̨chǫ, c. 1860

Legging Legging

Legging, one of a pair, of tanned smoked caribou skin with thong fringes at the seams, sewn with sinew, part of a woman's summer outfit: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Great Slave Lake, Tłı̨chǫ, c. 1860

Moccasin Moccasin

Moccasin, one of a pair, of tanned smoked caribou skin of two-piece form with added ankle flaps and drawstring thong ties, part of a woman's summer outfit: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Great Slave Lake, Tłı̨chǫ, c. 1860

Moccasin Moccasin

Moccasin, one of a pair, of tanned smoked caribou skin of two-piece form with added ankle flaps and drawstring thong ties, part of a woman's summer outfit: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Great Slave Lake, Tłı̨chǫ, c. 1860

Tunic, man's Tunic, man's

Tunic of tanned calf moose skin decorated with porcupine quillwork, beads, quilled fringes and red ochre, part of a man's summer outfit: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Gwich'in, c. 1862

Tunic Tunic

Tunic, of tanned caribou skin, decorated with trade beads, dentalium shells and quilled fringe, part of a Gwich'in man's summer outfit: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Gwich'in, c. 1862

Belt, man's Belt, man's

Man's belt comprising a band of red, white, blue and yellow loom-woven porcupine quills coloured with European aniline dyes, not yet attached to a tanned caribou skin band: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Fort Simpson, Tłı̨chǫ

Toboggan Toboggan

Model passenger toboggan, of birchwood with upturned front and upright back rest, the sides and part of the top filled in with caribou skin parchment: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Denesuline, c. 1861

Kettle Kettle

Soapstone cooking pot for boiling water, ukkusik, with sinew strings for suspension: Inuit, Melville Peninsula

Pana Pana

"Pana", man's knife used for dissecting game, made of wood, bone and iron: Inuit, Winter Island, Melville Peninsula

Necklace Necklace

Necklace, consisting of six rows of white, green and red glass beads and ivory strung on sinew: North America, USA, Alaska, Nunivak Island, Inuit, 1930s

Spear, hunting / upper part Spear, hunting / upper part

Upper part of a wooden hunting spear (cundarra) with a single barbed head secured with gum and sinew: Australasia, Australia, Western Australia, Pilbara, upper Sherlock River, possibly Ngarluma or Yindjibarndi, late 19th century

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