λSeven Inuit model hunting implements Alaska wood

λSeven Inuit model hunting implements

Alaska

wood, marine ivory and sinew, including a whale hunting harpoon with a metal tip, with inventory number H.1324, 27.4cm long; a whale hunting harpoon with an atlatl, with inventory number H.1327, 33cm long; a seal hunting harpoon, having a detachable tip, 25.6cm long; a bird hunting harpoon with three barbed tips, 17.5cm long; a bow with painted decoration, 23.8cm long and two paddles, one with marine ivory tips and with inventory number H.1308, 28.1cm and 29.4cm long. (9)

Provenance

The two whale hunting harpoons and the marine ivory tipped paddle -

James T. Hooper Collection, London/Arundel, H.1324, H.1327 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.

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.