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Yup'ik

Harpoon Head (Toggling) and Foreshaft

Inuit, 1800

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Harpoon Head (Toggling) and Foreshaft

Yup'ik

Harpoon Head (Toggling) and Foreshaft

Yup'ik

Harpoon Head (Toggling) and Foreshaft

Inuit, 1800

Physical Qualities Rawhide, bone, copper alloy, 10 13/16 in. (approx.) (27.5 cm.)
Credit Line John Erikson Collection
Object Number 1955.167.63a-b
Purchased by John Erikson in Alaska ca. 1900
Darienne Turner, The Baltimore Museum of Art, “Arctic Artistry”, July 17, 2022-January 8, 2023.

BMA, May Wing, Vitrines, Summer 1957.

Inscribed: none

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