Aberdeenshire Museums Service's Collections | Details

Sidebar content	Main content
Actions	Inuit spearhead Remove from selection Add to selection Object numberP5315 TitleInuit spearhead Descriptioninuit spearhead found on Southampton Island (now Shugliaq), part of the Kivalliq Region in Nunavut, Canada. Collected in 1928-1929 by a Hudson's Bay Company employee, it was probably created by a member of the now-extinct Sallirmuit tribe of Inuit, who were the last vestige of the Tuniit. The Tuniit, a pre-Inuit culture, officially went ethnically and culturally extinct in 1902-03 when infectious disease killed all of the Sallirmiut in a matter of weeks. Object namespearhead, Inuit

Object numberP5315

TitleInuit spearhead

Descriptioninuit spearhead found on Southampton Island (now Shugliaq), part of the Kivalliq Region in Nunavut, Canada. Collected in 1928-1929 by a Hudson's Bay Company employee, it was probably created by a member of the now-extinct Sallirmuit tribe of Inuit, who were the last vestige of the Tuniit. The Tuniit, a pre-Inuit culture, officially went ethnically and culturally extinct in 1902-03 when infectious disease killed all of the Sallirmiut in a matter of weeks.

Object namespearhead, Inuit

Item request date
Expected return date
Destination