Arms collection, before 1913 - Alaska, Yupik

10 pcs., wood, bone, fibre, feathers, fabric,

a) bow with string ("urluvret"), l: 146 cm
b) two arrows ("pitegcautet") for hunting birds ("akulmiqurcetaaq"), l: 84 cm & 85 cm
c) three arrows for hunting seals ("kinguliraq"), l: 74,5 cm; 83 cm & 91 cm
d) one arrow shaft, l: 59 cm
e) one spear for bird hunting, l: 155 cm
f) two hunting harpoons ("asaaquq"), l: 126 cm (each)

One of the arrows for seal hunting is carved with the face of a predator. The depiction of a predator with teeth is intended to increase the hunter's success when hunting smaller marine mammals in open water with towing and line equipment.

Provenance:
Gottlieb Adolf Stecker (1859-1939)
Family property, Eibau, Germany
German private collection (acquired from the family)

Lit.: Varjola, Pirjo, The Etholén Collection, The ethnographic Alaskan collection of Adolf Etholén and his contemporaries in the National Museum of Finland, Helsinki 1990, p. 292 ff.
Continent: America
Condition Report: See description