**Originally Listed At $200**

Native American, Northwestern United States, Alaska, Inuit, ca. 19th to mid-20th century CE. This is a fine collection of 3 hand-made items of wood and whale or walrus bone. The largest is a vintage cedar fish effigy, with a slender, streamlined body and incised mouth. The wood is polished and has nice honey toned graining. The next is a wooden miniature dugout-style canoe or kayak carved from a red wood, complete with a bench seat. The last item is a harpoon, and the oldest, of the three, specifically made to use for hunting and fishing. The bone fore-shaft has a drilled perforation for mounting on a pole, and the hole through the center was for attaching a rope line. The slotted tip contains a sharpened bone blade for stabbing through flesh and blubber. Size of harpoon head: 4.5" L x 0.75" W (11.4 cm x 1.9 cm); wooden fish: 7.5" L x 0.5" W x 1.5" H (19 cm x 1.3 cm x 3.8 cm)

Provenance: ex-Komor Gallery, New York City, New York, USA, circa 1965

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#158307

Minor nicks and surface abrasions to tail and head and faint illegible initials on base. Canoe is intact and excellent. Harpoon head has minor surface abrasions and is intact with a nice patina.