Subject: umialik 'boat owner' sea hunter
Culture: Tagiugmiut / North Alaskan Sea Eskimo
Setting: tribal warfare, northwestern Alaska 1850-1920
Object: amulets
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology > Change and Continuity: Hall of the North American Indian *
"Whale Amulet (North Alaska Eskimo)
Chipped stone effigies of whales were commonly worn around the necks of men and boys involved in whaling.
Their purpose was to bring luck to the hunters.
This object was collected in the Point Barrow region and came to the Peabody Museum in 1894 as part of the Frederick H. Rindge Collection." ...
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