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Winged object
Alaska, St. Lawrence Island, Punuk-Kultur

walrus ivory, pierced several times for insertion of laces for support, decorated with linear incised ornaments and drilled dots, slightly dam., cracks, on metal base;
the meaning of these winged objects is not clear up to now. They might have been used to keep the parts of the wooden framing of a kajak together. They could as well have been used as a stabilizer at the base of a harpoon, in order to make the weapon glide on the surface of the water.
L: 16 cm, ca. 500 - 700 AD (4666/084)

Provenance:
Michael Evans, New Haven, USA

Lit.:
Bandi, Hans-Georg, Die Kunst der Eskimos auf der St.-Lorenz-Insel in Alaska, Bern 1977, Orbis Pictus 65, p. 32

Winged object
Alaska, St. Lawrence Island, Punuk-Kultur

walrus ivory, pierced several times for insertion of laces for support, decorated with linear incised ornaments and drilled dots, slightly dam., cracks, on metal base;
the meaning of these winged objects is not clear up to now. They might have been used to keep the parts of the wooden framing of a kajak together. They could as well have been used as a stabilizer at the base of a harpoon, in order to make the weapon glide on the surface of the water.
L: 16 cm, ca. 500 - 700 AD (4666/084)

Provenance:
Michael Evans, New Haven, USA

Lit.:
Bandi, Hans-Georg, Die Kunst der Eskimos auf der St.-Lorenz-Insel in Alaska, Bern 1977, Orbis Pictus 65, p. 32