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Early/Mid 20th Century
6.75" L x 1" W + 3" L - Fossilized Ivory Harpoon Point + 4.75" L - Bone Awls x 2
Hand Carved and Engraved Bone which Includes a Rectangular Bone Armor Slat with Six Piercings for Attachment and Engraved with Four Detailed Hunting Scenes and Two Highly Decorated Bone Awls
In Very Good Condition
Ancient, very fine, Alaskan Eskimo Engraved Bone Armor Slat
Native American, Alaska, Inuit, Aleutian, or Punuk peoples, Pre-Contact Period, ca. 100 to 1000 CE. Armor panels were sewn onto a larger tunic to provide protection to a warrior. Armor panel are hand-carved from either walrus or whale bone and hassix drilled attachment holes, and the smooth shape enabled spears and other weapons to be effortlessly deflected
Condition:
Very Good
Tribe:
Eskimo - Inuit - Yup'ik
Year Range:
1925 - 1950
Region:
Pacific Northwest - and Alaska
Dimensions:
6.75 in1 in3 in4.75 in
Category:
Other , Prehistoric to Historic Northwest Tools and Artifacts
