Museum catalogue: Arctic Material Culture Collection
Lance
Details
Accession no.: | Y: 82/11/1 | ||||||||||
Title: | Lance | ||||||||||
Description: | Lance, shaft and blade. Tunumiit (East Greenlanders). Kloftelv, Solitoerbugt, Ella O, Kalaallit Nunaata Tunua (East Greenland), 1950. | ||||||||||
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Number of items: | 1 | ||||||||||
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Shaft is made from a single piece of antler, oval in cross-section. Shaft tapers slightly towards pointed distal end. Two circular holes through shaft 20 mm and 48 mm from straight proximal end. Diamond-shaped metal (iron) blade tapers to a sharp point. Proximal end of blade is inserted into split in distal end of shaft and secured with a circular metal (iron) rivet. |
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