λ Eight Inuit model hunting implements

λ Eight Inuit model hunting implements

Alaska

marine ivory, wood and sinew, including a whale harpoon with an atlatl and inventory number H.1327, 33cm long; a bird harpoon with three barbed tips, 17.5cm long; a bird harpoon with two barbed body fins and a later metal tip, 22.5cm; two whale harpoons with metal tips, one with inventory number H.1324, 27.5cm long; a whale harpoon, 26cm long; two paddles, one with marine ivory tips and inventory number H.1308, 28.1cm long; two bows, 24cm and 34.4cm long; a peg marker and two shuttles, all mounted and cased. (14)

Provenance

Two harpoons and marine ivory tipped paddle - James T. Hooper Collection, London/Arundel, H.1327, H.1324 and H.1308.

Christie's, London, American Indian Art from the James Hooper Collection, 9 Nov 1976, lot 97 part and lot 105 part.

A private collection, Canada.

Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Tribal Art, 22 Sept 2020, lot 87.

The Graham Turner Collection.

Literature

Steven Phelps, Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas, The James Hooper Collection, 1976, p.288, H.1324, H.1327 and H.1308.