Native Americans for Kids: Inuit Peoples - Ducksters
网页In order to hunt larger prey like walruses and whales, the Inuit hunters would gather in a large group. To hunt a whale, typically at least 20 hunters would gather on a large boat armed with a number of harpoons. They would attach a number of seal-skin balloons filled with air to the harpoons.
Toggling harpoon - Wikipedia
网页Modern Inuit toggling harpoon head used for seal hunting. Off the harpoon handle. The toggling harpoon is an ancient weapon and tool used in whaling to impale a whale when thrown. Unlike earlier harpoon versions which had only one point, a toggling harpoon has a two-part point.
Seal Harpoon - Smithsonian Institution
网页This short harpoon was specifically designed for killing seals at their breathing holes. The basic parts of a harpoon are the detachable head, foreshaft, socket piece, wooden shaft, and harpoon line. Toggling heads were made of bone, ivory, or antler, with a slot at the end to hold a thin stone or metal blade.
“The Multiplication of Forms:” Bering Strait Harpoon ... - Springer
网页2009年1月1日 — A float was sewn out of seal skin (Nelson 1899:140ff) and resembles the storage bladders from seal or caribou stomachs used for oil (Nelson 1899:73). Stylistic addenda were comparatively rare on harpoon heads across the arctic during the nineteenth century, and those first collected by anthropologists rarely had decorations.
Inuk artist offers new twists on traditional hunting and fishing tools
网页2018年5月5日 — Couzyn van Heuvelen is best known as the Inuk artist who creates oversized, tin-foil party balloons that are made to resemble avataqs—the inflatable sealskin floats traditionally used by Inuit hunters to track and tire marine mammals.
网页The thick hide of the bearded seal was favoured by many groups for making harpoon lines. The tangs of non-toggling heads were held in the harpoon socket by friction. Toggle harpoon heads, on the other hand, were held in place at the end the foreshaft by tension on the harpoon line, which
Inuit harpoon head | Collection stories | Museum | University of …
网页2021年10月8日 — Inuit harpoon head. This bone harpoon head was made by Alaskan Inuit. It was originally attached onto a stick to form the harpoon. As soon as it hit a seal or a walrus, the head would spring loose. This way, the weight of the stick would not pry the weapon loose from the wound. The weapon is over a hundred years old.
Seal-skin line for harpoon – Objects – eMuseum
网页Inventory Description Harpoon line, rawhide, coiled, knotted at ends Classification Harpoon
Harpoon head and line – Objects – eMuseum
网页Seal-skin line for harpoon Harpoon. Labrador. 53-36-60/10139 Harpoon line of seal or walrus strips - has walrus ivory head with steel blade Harpoon. Siberia. 01-16-10/57024 Harpoon head and line Harpoon. Nova Scotia. 02-22-10/62146.1 Harpoon, coiled line & point, barbed metal point attached to leather line ...
harpoon-line - British Museum
网页Seal skin harpoon line and float with ivory perforated stopper for inflating; ivory bilaterally barbed harpoon head with rivetted iron point (attached to Am1921,1004.12b and c).
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