Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected by Thorild Wulff (1877-1917, a Swedish botanist and polar explorer) between 1916 and 1917; formerly in the collection of the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum (Stockholm, Sweden); acquired by MAI through an exchange with the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum in 1922.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Kalaallit [Greenland]
- Collector
- Dr. Thorild Wulff, Non-Indian, 1877-1917
- Previous owner
- Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet (Swedish Museum of Natural History)
- Object Name
- Hunting float
- Media/Materials
- Animal bladder, animal bone, hide
- Techniques
- Carved, wrapped
- Object Type
- Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
