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Description: | Ivory model of a blubber pounder. Two pieces of bone slotted together at right angles, secured by a bone dowel. The smaller piece has a suspension hole at one end. The full-sized version in wood, horn or bone would have been used to prepare frozen blubber before using it for fuel. Mallet-shaped blubber pounders are found in the Amundsen Collection of Netsilik Inuit material and were also used by the Iglulik (Iglulingmiut). Part of a collection of ethnographic items made by Admiral Sir George Back (1796-1878). The item would have been made for sale to Europeans and Back met Inuit anxious to trade ivory carvings in Hudson Strait on 12 August 1819 and 5 August 1836- there was a tradition of ivory carving established on Baffin Island. Back's collection was bequeathed to Greenwich Hospital in 1900 by Mrs Eliza Back, widow of Sir George's nephew - the Reverend Henry Back.
Advice from J C H King of the British Museum on provenance. Bequeathed to Greenwich Hospital in 1900 by Mrs Eliza Back, widow of Sir George Back's nephew, the Rev Henry Back. See PRO ADM169-267.
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | tools Inuit Native George Back | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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