Harpoon / model

Description

Model sealing harpoon of ivory with wooden shaft: North America, Canada, Baffin Island, Cape Dorset, Inuit, possibly by Peter Pitsulak, collected by John N.S. Buchan, 1938 - 1939

Museum reference

K.1997.432

Collection

Americas

Object name

Harpoon / model

Production information

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

Date

1938 - 1939

Style / Culture

Inuit

Materials

Ivory, Wood

Physical description

Ivory, wood and sealskin

Associations

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

References

Tweedsmuir, Lord, Hudson's Bay Trader