Title
Ivory points which were probably attached to the heads of bird spears
Caption
Ivory points which were probably attached to the heads of bird spears, Three or four points were usually attached to the shaft. When hurled into a flock of birds from a range of up to fifty metres, such spears sometimes impaled two or three bird at once. Eskimo. 1500 years old.
Info+
Werner Forman Archive/ Anchorage Museum of History & Art
Credit line
Photo12/Universal Images Group/Werner Forman
Reference
UMG12A27_200
Model release
No
License type
Rights managed
Available size
26,8Mb (492,9Kb) / 11,8in x 8,8in / 3548 x 2640 (300dpi)