The animal’s body, a square or round piece of cardboard with a 1.5 inches diameter hole.Harpoon head is 8.25 inches long, 1.5 inches wide at its widest, and 1 inch deep. What happens? Can you see how this invention allowed the hunter to keep his prey, even if it swam away? Now push the harpoon head through the hole in the cardboard seal. Tie the string through the hole in the harpoon head. Take another piece of cardboard and cut a hole in it that is just wide enough to let the harpoon head through, lengthwise. Fold and tape it as the illustration shows to make it three-dimensional. Instructionsįollow the pattern to cut the harpoon head shape from a piece of cardboard ( Toggle Harpoon Pattern). Our newest shelter investigation, a North Slope Ivrulik, instructs students in how to make a replica toggle harpoon, and helps them understand how this multi-component weapon was important in the daily lives of Iñupiaq people. This made it difficult for the sea mammal to dive, so it had to stay near the surface where the boat could follow. Also attached to the line was a balloon made of sealskin. This was to insure that the hunter would be able to follow the animal until it got tired enough so the hunter could kill it. The harpoon head was attached to the harpoon by a 3 foot line and the harpoon was attached to the boat by another 45 foot line. After the hunter hit the sea mammal, the harpoon head then detached from the harpoon, and toggled, or turned under the animal’s skin so it wouldn’t slide out. At the end of the harpoon, was a bone, ivory, stone, or (later) a metal tip, as to better pierce the thick hide of the animal. A toggle harpoon is a multi-component weapon.
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