Toggling Harpoon Head, Foreshaft and Socketpiece of a Walrus Harpoon
Iñupiaq
Western Arctic
Arctic
collected 1905
Bone, ivory, wood, seal skin line, and slate
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.17.9638
Geography
Place Made: Point Hope, United States, North America
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Hunting and Fishing
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 05, Introduction to Archaeology, Nathaniel Kitchel, Summer 2019
Exhibition History
Arctic Day, Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, Vermont, February 1-4, 1991.
Arctic Day, Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, Vermont, February 14-18, 1992.
Arctic Day, Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, Vermont, February 15-16, 1993.
Arctic Day, Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, Vermont, February 18-21, 1994.
Peoples and Cultures of the Plains, Northwest Coast, and Arctic Region, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Native American Studies 21 / Anthropology 40, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 30-December 20, 1992.
Provenance
Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Point Hope, Alaska, 1905; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.
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