Museum catalogue: Arctic Material Culture Collection
Harpoon socket
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Accession no.: | Y: 72/18/12 | ||||||||||
Title: | Harpoon socket | ||||||||||
Description: | Socket, harpoon, bone. Caribou Inuit. Igluligaarjuk (Chesterfield Inlet), Nunavut, Canada, 1915. | ||||||||||
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Number of items: | 1 | ||||||||||
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Made from a single piece of bone oval in cross section and hollow through centre. Shaft flares towards elliptical end with oval socket. Written in black ink: "Harpoon head. Chesterfield Inlet. Hudson Bay 1915 / Chesterfield Inlet Hudson Bay." |
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