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Description: | Two Inuit model sealing harpoons with a model float and line. One harpoon with painted wooden shaft, bone foreshaft with lead tip attached by leather thongs, bone pins midway along shaft for throwing. Second harpoon as the first, but also has model throwing board and bone 'flights' attached to the rear of the shaft with wooden pins; tip missing. Model float of gut, mouthpiece closed with wooden peg, attached to leather leader wound onto reel of wood and bone. Leader tied to lead tipped bone harpoon head which fits onto foreshaft of second harpoon - they may belong together. Model complete with bone pegs and toggling head.
Material: wood
Material: bone
Material: leather
Material: lead
Material: gut
image | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.ethnography.64963 | Go to resource |
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