Object Details
- Culture/People
- Iglulingmiut Inuit (Iglulirmiut)
- Previous seller
- Harry Geoffrey Beasley (Harry L. Beasley/Harry C. Beasley/H. G. Beasley), Non-Indian, 1881-1939
- Previous owner
- William Ockleford Oldman (W.O. Oldman/William Ockelford Oldman), Non-Indian, 1879-1949
- Seller
- William Ockleford Oldman (W.O. Oldman/William Ockelford Oldman), Non-Indian, 1879-1949
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; acquired by William Ockleford Oldman (1879-1949, who did business as "W.O. Oldman, Ethnographical Specimens, London") in 1914 from British anthropologist and collector Harry Geoffrey Beasley (1881-1939); purchased by George Heye from W.O. Oldman in 1915.
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- Catalog Number
- 4/878
- Barcode
- 040878.000
- Object Type
- Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
- Object Name
- Spear shaft
- Media/Materials
- Narwhal ivory
- Techniques
- Carved
- Place
- Pond Inlet (Ponds Inlet, Mittimatalik); Qikiqtaaluk Region (Qitirmiut, Baffin); Nunavut; Canada
- Archipelago
- Canadian Arctic Archipelago
- Island Name
- Baffin Island
- Island Grouping
- Baffin Island Group
- See related items
- Iglulingmiut Inuit (Iglulirmiut)
- Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_43895
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6e92ff116-2ccc-4417-817e-fbd7fc26307f
