Harpoon Point
Unidentified Kalaallit (West Greenlandic Inuit) maker
Eastern Arctic
Arctic
about 1920s
Ivory, walrus tooth, and iron
Overall: 3 7/16 × 1/2 in. (8.7 × 1.3 cm)
Overall: 13/16 in. (2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Margaret Barnhill Roosevelt Kimberly
22.3.1922
Geography
Place Made: Disko Bay region, Greenland, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Hunting and Fishing
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Not on view
Provenance
Margaret Barnhill Roosevelt Kimberly (1851-1927), West Newton, Massachusetts; given to the present collection, 1922.
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