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Model HarpoonA2.291

Miniature harpoon with a wooden shaft. Attached at one end is a curved blade-like bone tied with sinew; other end has a sharp nail inserted into bone and tied with sinew.

Culture
Inuit: Inuinnait
Material
metal, sinew, wood and bone
Made in
Coppermine, Nunavut, Canada and Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model ArrowA2.290

Short arrow with a wooden shaft and a copper arrowhead secured at the base with sinew.

Culture
Inuit: Inuinnait
Material
copper metal, sinew and wood
Made in
Coppermine, Nunavut, Canada and Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpoonA2.287

Translucent yellow-white spoon carved from horn. Bowl of spoon is oval and elongated. Sinew is bound around the handle, tying it to the bowl.

Culture
Inuit: Inuinnait
Material
horn and sinew
Made in
Coppermine, Nunavut, Canada and Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BowA2.534

Wooden recurve cable-backed bow. Three pieces bound together with skin and braided fibre cords. A thick braided band of fibre cords runs the length of the bow on the outside of the curve. Bowstring is made of twined fibre cords.

Culture
Inuit: Inuinnait
Material
fibre, skin, yew wood, oak wood and metal
Made in
Coppermine, Nunavut, Canada and Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearA2.533 a-b

Spear (part a) has a walrus tusk three barbed tip that fits in to a walrus tusk and wood shaft to which it is also tethered. Atlatl thrower (part b) has a walrus tusk spear rest and a board with a red top surface and a black bottom surface. The atlatl has accurate hand contour.

Culture
Aleut
Material
wood, walrus tusk and fibre
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BowA2.532

Cable-backed bow made of seven pieces of caribou antler riveted together and tied with sinew and hide backing. Thick band of braided sinew cords run the length of the bow on the outside curve. Bowstring of braided sinew.

Culture
Inuit: Inuinnait
Material
caribou antler, skin, sinew, copper metal and ivory
Made in
Coppermine, Nunavut, Canada and Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HarpoonA2.531

Small barbed harpoon head, with iron point with bearded seal line attached to harpoon. The other end has a bone ice pick. Starting from the long curved tip point to the short straight tip point: walrus tusk (long curved tip point), bone, antler (harpoon head with metal point), walrus bone (rounded end piece), and antler (short straight tip point).

Culture
Inupiaq
Material
wood, bone, iron metal, skin, walrus tusk, antler and walrus bone
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Straight PickA2.447

Straight pick with a tapered point at each end made from mottled brown walrus tusk (possibly fossilized). Pick is bound to a straight handle of brown walrus baculum with rawhide lashings.

Culture
Inuit: Inuinnait
Material
rawhide skin, walrus bone and walrus tusk
Made in
Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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AdzeA2.446

Wood and bone adze in three parts lashed together with strips of skin--black stone blade is also bound to the handle with strips of skin. Bottom of handle is rounded and shallowly carved to resemble a seal's head.

Culture
Yup'ik ?
Material
bone, wood, stone and skin
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BowA2.530

Cable-backed, recurve bow made of five pieces of wood bound together with cords of braided sinew and strips of skin. A thick band of braided sinew wound with a strip of skin runs the length of the bow on the outer side of the curve. Bowstring is also made of braided sinew.

Culture
Inuit: Inuinnait
Material
wood, sinew and skin
Made in
Coppermine, Nunavut, Canada and Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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