Harpoon / model

Description

Model of a harpoon carved from walrus ivory, part of a model of a seated seal hunter on a wooden stand: North America, Canada, Baffin Island, Cape Dorset, Inuit, collected by John N.S. Buchan, 1938 - 1939

Museum reference

K.1997.414 D

Collection

Americas

Object name

Harpoon / model

Production information

Cape Dorset, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, North America

Date

1938 - 1939

Style / Culture

Inuit

Materials

Walrus ivory

Physical description

Walrus ivory

Associations

Collector and owner: Buchan, John Norman Stuart, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 1911 - 1996
Hudson's Bay Company

References

Tweedsmuir, Lord, Hudson's Bay Trader