model harpoon with sealskin float
- From The Collection Of
- Scottish Fisheries Museum
- Accession Number
- ANSFM : 2013.306.4
- Discipline
- Humanities
- Date
- 1969 (creation date)
- Materials and Techniques
- whale ivory, sealskin bladder, string? (material)
- Place
- Coral Harbour, Keewatin, Northwest Territories Canada (creation)
- Description
- Two pieces tied together by rubber string (?) that starts in ivory (?) plug of bladder and winds the length of most of the harpoon. Head of harpoon from a different piece of ivory. Hook on lower third of harpoon. Sealskin bladder is puffy with a seam around ~70% of edge. A small plug, probably of whale ivory, is at one end. A bit scuffed. The bladder is used to stop a harpooned seal sinking.
- See Elsewhere
- MDS record link
- Record Rights
- Scottish Fisheries Museum
- CC BY
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