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Lance, model

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Accession no.: N: 201g
Title: Lance, model
Description: Lance, model. Tunumiit (East Greenlanders). Tasiilaq (Ammassalik), Kalaallit Nunaata Tunua (East Greenland), no date.
Object type: Lance, model
Classified name:
Current cultural affiliation: Tunumiit
Former cultural affiliation: East Greenlanders
Cultural subgroup: ammassalimmiut
Current place name: Kalaallit Nunaata Tunu > Tasiilaq
Former place name: East Greenland > Ammassalik (Angmassalik)
Keyword(s): Models
Field collection:
Person: rymill
Organisation: baare
Place: Kalaallit Nunaata Tunu (East Greenland) > Tasiilaq (Ammassalik, Angmassalik)
Date: 1930
Number of items: 1
Full description:

Harpoon, model: Shaft is made from a single piece of wood, oval in cross-section, which tapers towards flattened curved proximal end. Shaft flares towards distal end which terminates in a circular ivory cap. Pointed ivory shaft with triangular blade is secured to wood shaft with sinew lashings threaded through two circular holes in ivory shaft and three circular holes in wood shaft.

Related records:
  • 201 a-i
Dimensions: Image:
  • Width: Arraymm; height: ?mm; length: 152mm; diameter: ?mm; depth: ?mm