Harpoon Point

Unidentified Kalaallit (West Greenlandic Inuit) maker
Eastern Arctic
Arctic

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about 1920s

Ivory, walrus tooth, and iron

Overall: 3 7/16 × 1/2 in. (8.7 × 1.3 cm)

Overall: 13/16 in. (2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Margaret Barnhill Roosevelt Kimberly

22.3.1922

Geography

Place Made: Disko Bay region, Greenland, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Hunting and Fishing

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern

Not on view

Provenance

Margaret Barnhill Roosevelt Kimberly (1851-1927), West Newton, Massachusetts; given to the present collection, 1922.

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