Eskimo Hunting Harpoon

Description:

Eskimo Hunting Harpoon, 19th century, wood shaft with two-piece walrus ivory point and three barbed walrus ivory points halfway down the shaft, partly attached with fiber, cut in two halfway and reattached with metal collar, lg. 63 1/2 in.

Provenance: Deaccessioned from the Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society, Easton, Pennsylvania. Inventory no. 82.5.4.
Estimate $500-700


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