fishing equipment
- Museum number
- Am1855,1126.472
- Description
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Fishing equipment; winder carved from wood (pine?), and with two carved ivory (walrus) harpoon heads and one carved ivory (walrus) sinker attached by baleen fishing line.
- Dimensions
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Length: 400 - 500 centimetres (Approximate length of baleen fishing line (cannot unwind).)
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Length: 51.50 centimetres (Of wooden winder.)
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Width: 2.50 centimetres (Of wooden winder.)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1984 13 Dec-1986 Jun, Museum of Mankind, Inuit / Eskimo: People of the North American Arctic, Case: "Hunting"
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1855,1126.472