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Throwing board

Kodiak Eskimos

19th c.

I.G. Voznesenskii's expedition

wood, ivory, sea otter tooth

length 48 cm, width 5.5 cm, thickness 2.3 cm

The front of this throwing board is decorated with a zoomorphic likeness. Its eyes are located just below the opening for the forefinger and below there is a long nose with wide nostrils and a mouth formed by several horizontal lines. It is possible that these lines also symbolize an animal’s flippers.

Ethnography of America