Harpoon Socket

Harpoon Socket, ca. 300

  • Eskimo, Native American

Bone

  • Overall: 5 1/4 × 2 × 1 inches (13.3 × 5.1 × 2.5 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, New Endowment Fund

80.59

Department

Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas

  • Patterns (design elements)
  • Eskimo
  • Decoration (process)
  • Polishing
  • Drilling
  • Engraving (incising)
  • Bone
  • Harpoons
  • North and central america
  • Harpoon socket

Details

(Alan and Damon Brandt, New York, New York, USA)

1980-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Eskimo, Native American, Harpoon Socket, ca. 300, bone. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, New Endowment Fund, 80.59.

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