Zemanek-Münster

Arrow tip

Greenland, Inuit, Thule Kultur
sold EUR 700
Size
L: 11 cm
L: 4.3 inch

Description

walrus ivory, thorn-shaped ending (for fitting on the shaft), the opposite side carved with a flat triangular tip, barb on the right side broken, decorated with pictographic engravings: depicting a hunter with sleigh and two dogs, four small crosses on the opposite side, incisions accentuated by dark pigment, slightly dam., socle, around 1850


Comparing literature

Leskov, A. M. & H. Müller-Beck (Hg.), Arktische Waljäger vor 3000 Jahren, Mainz, München 1993, p. 129, ill. 116

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