Subject: umialik 'boat owner' sea hunter
Culture: Tagiugmiut / North Alaskan Sea Eskimo
Setting: tribal warfare, northwestern Alaska 1850-1920
Object: atlatl/throwing board
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* Carnegie Museum of Natural History > Polar World: Wyckoff Hall of Arctic Life
"THROWING BOARD (wood, baleen ivory) ..." ...
* Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology > Change and Continuity: Hall of the North American Indian
"Throwing Board (Probably Pacific Eskimo)
Throwing boards were instrumental in hunting from a kayak. They added length to the arms, thus providing extra thrust in hurling harpoons. This specimen was collected by Edward G. Fast in 18670-1868. An effigy carving, possibly of a man, occurs on its underside. The depression above the effigy's head is thought to be a depiction of whale genitalia." ...
