Harpoon head · Inuit, Punuk · ID: 3038746
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Provenance
Joseph Gerena, New York, USASize
L: 25 cm
L: 9.8 inch
Description
bone, dark brown patina, split top for insertion of the harpoon tip, opening in the corpus for attachment of the harpoon rope, pointed bottom presumably was mortized in the foreshaft, slightly dam., eroded surface, exfoliation in some places
The object Harpoon head with the object ID 3038746 was last part of the auction 80th Tribal Art Auction at June 27, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 74.
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