Iñupiaq. Drag with ivory seal-head toggle, late 19th century. Hide, ivory, toggle width: 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, A. Augustus Healy Fund, 44.34.11. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 44.34.11_acetate_bw.jpg)
Iñupiaq. Drag with ivory seal-head toggle, late 19th century. Hide, ivory, toggle width: 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, A. Augustus Healy Fund, 44.34.11. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.44.34.11.jpg)
Drag with ivory seal-head toggle
Arts of the Americas
On View: Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
CULTURE
Iñupiaq
MEDIUM
Hide, ivory
DATES
late 19th century
DIMENSIONS
toggle width: 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm)
length: 9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Arts of the Americas
ACCESSION NUMBER
44.34.11
CREDIT LINE
A. Augustus Healy Fund
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
The toggle head is a seal poking through the ice at one end with an angled spur located at the other. The toggle types have a line hole near the midsection of the harpoon head.The toggle head is attached to a fore-shaft assembly which provides the weight to thrust the head through the mammal’s skin and blubber right down into the muscle. When the strike is good enough to get the harpoon head deep into the animal’s muscle, the fore-shaft assembly falls away. This toggle may have been used for seal hunting.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
CAPTION
Iñupiaq. Drag with ivory seal-head toggle, late 19th century. Hide, ivory, toggle width: 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, A. Augustus Healy Fund, 44.34.11. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 44.34.11_acetate_bw.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 44.34.11_acetate_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
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