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Alaska Native Yupik Eskimo Artifact The Thule Period
Circa 1000 A.D. to 1700 A.D. Native Alaskan Eskimo Whale Bone Fishing Lure Genuine Piece of Alaskan Native Art AUTHENTIC ALASKAN NATIVE YUPIK ARTICLE OF HANDICRAFT
Whale Bone Fishing Lure found on Saint Lawrence Island, Bering sea coastal region of Alaska.
Native Alaskan Eskimo Yupik Fishing Lure, Thule Period The body of the lure is hand carved from Whale Bone . Possibly for saltwater fishing. It is good condition and will make a great addition to your collection.
The Thule Period
Circa 1000 A.D. to 1700 A.D.
A variety of harpoons with detachable heads of caribou antler, ivory or whale bone trident fishing spears and f ishing lures D og whips and harnesses made from sealskin, and bird-darts have been excavated from Thule sites. Thule people also had heavy equipment such as umiaks, kayaks, and komatiks (sleds) made from a variety of materials. Stone oil lamps, stone cooking pots, women's equipment such as ulus (the half-moon shaped, all-purpose knife), needle cases of ivory and bone, with ivory or bird needles, skin buckets, cups and dippers, sun goggles of bone or ivory The Cape Dorset culture waned about 1300 A.D., and the compass of years from 1000 A.D. to 1700 A.D. emerged as the Thule period, showing a cultural overlap of some 300 years. Thule culture was occasioned by a new migration, once again drifting eastwards from Alaska over the Canadian Arctic, and into Greenland. These travelers brought with them the traditions derived from a culture known as Birnirk, which existed on the north coast of Alaska, and which itself was a product of the constant progressions and developments of the cultures in the area of the Bering Strait. These changes are linked directly with the Denbigh Flint Complex of 2500 B.C., although some other influences existed also, but it does establish a faint and somewhat tenuous connection between the people of the earliest times and the present Inuit. It is estimated that the Thule people, traveling from northern Alaska along the Arctic coast and through the high Arctic islands, reached northwest Greenland around 1100 A.D. Moving south, they came in contact with Viking settlers on the southwest coast of Greenland. Further movement of Thule people drifted southwards, to Ungava and down the Labrador coast to the Strait of Belle Isle. Although the Thule people lived a nomadic hunting life similar to the Dorset people, and had comparable tools and weapons, they also had dogs for pulling sleds, hunting and packing loads. Further to this development, they established themselves as whale-hunters, and thus put themselves in a superior position to that of their forebears, by obtaining a new material resource for food, artifacts and building supplies. Three hundred years later, Inuit artists across the Canadian Arctic reaped the benefit of the Thule ancestors' enterprise and industry, in having available to them old whalebone for use as a sculptural medium. The Thule people used the stone of the land more extensively, making low walls of stone and earth sods, supported by frames of whale rib and jaw. They also used flat stones inside their houses for flooring, and for making cooking and sleeping platforms. The Thule people camped in skin tents during the summer, like their Dorset ancestors, and almost certainly adapted from the Dorset people the practice of building snow houses for temporary winter quarters, as snow houses were not part of the Alaskan way of life. It is concluded that the present-day Inuit have emerged over the last 250 years from the Thule people, bringing with them much of the Thule way of life, using similar weapons and tools and utilizing the same methods of survival. THIS ITEM IS LISTED WITH eBAY GUIDELINE AND BY FEDERAL REGULATION
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Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972,
Sec. 119 - Marine mammal cooperative agreements in Alaska "AN AUTHENTIC ALASKAN NATIVE HANDICRAFT, THI...
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