Harpoon Collection

Whaling Harpoon
A harpoon gun on the deck of the Norwegian whaling ship M. V. Rodny, at Ayr Harbour, Scotland

Upper Palaeolithic tools 18 - 30, 000 years old
L-R: a) Bone used to make needle blanks. b) Bone needle. c & d) Harpoon head and Barbed Point carved from antler. e & f) Two heads carved in mammoth ivory

Eskimo Hunts a Narwhal
An Eskimo fisherman pursuing a narwhal

HMS Argus 149
Royal Navy - HMS Argus 149, an aircraft carrier, seen in March 1939. Argus served from 1918 to 1944. After commissioning, the ship was involved for several years in the development of the optimum

Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon
United States Navy - Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon from St.Louis Naval Air Station providing shelter during a downpour at an airshow in the US. Date: circa 1950

Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon N6857C Fat Cat Too (msn 15-1216), of the Combat Air Museum, at Midland Airport on 8-10 October 1992. Date: 1992

Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon N7670C (msn 15-1438, ex BuAer 37472) Date: circa 2010

Historical views of Poland. Polish men in the city of Cracow 55, Peter the Wild Boy found in a forest near Hamelin 56, and the inflammable springs near Cracow 57

Sperm whale being hunted by whalers, 19th century
Sperm whale or cachalot, Physeter macrocephalus, being harpooned by whalers, 19th century. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by James Stewart from Georg Friedrich Treitschkes Gallery of

Bowhead whale and cachelot
Whalers harpooning a bowhead whale a, Balaena mysticetus, and cachelot or pot whale b, Physeter macrocephalus. Chromolithograph from Gotthilf Heinrich von Schuberts Natural History (Naturgeschichte)

Bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus, being hunted by whalers with harpoons. Engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire

Inuit (Eskimo) men hunting whales and seals
Inuit (Eskimo) men in fishing boats hunting whales with harpoons at sea, and others on the ice hunting seals and fish with spears

Harpoons. Bone. Maglemosian Culture, 8700-6500 BC
Harpoons made of elk or red deer bone. Maglemosian Culture, 8700-6500 BC. National Museum. Copenhagen. Denmark

Reindeer antler harpoons. 9500 BC. Paleolithic. New Zealand. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark

Whaler with Harpoon
A fisherman on the deck of a whaling ship next to a large harpoon. Date: early 1930s

Old Maid card game - The Deep Sea Diver. circa 1950s

A bone harpoon heads on cloth
and is a view of bone harpoon heads on cloth. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Finland. Utensils for river fishing. Harpoon of five tips and nets of fence for the spawning season. National Museum of Finland. Helsinki

Harpoons. 6500-4000 BC. Denmark
Harpoons of deer antler for hunting small whales and seals. 6500-4000 BC. From Zealand coasts and fjords of Eastern Jutland. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark

Harpoon carved from antler
Cast of an antler harpoon from the Magdalenian culture, 11, 000-18, 000 years ago (Upper Palaeolithic)

Hand-axes, blades & harpoon
The two axe-heads on the left are from the Middle Palaeolithic about 40, 000 BC; the three specimens on the right are from the Upper Palaeolithic abot 20, 000 BC (Agfa Film)

Whale Gun and Snow-shoe, 1875
Engraving of a typical harpoon gun, used for shooting whales or walrus in the Arctic region, and a patent snow-shoe or ski, 1875

Racial / Eskimos / Ross Exp
John Rosss arctic expedition: Native Eskimo friends of Ross and his expedition. L to R: Shulanina, Tulluachiu and Tirikshiu

Hunting Walrus 1555
Walrus hunted by Norwegians

French Whaler 1850
French whaler standing with his rope and harpoon

Racial / Greenland C1850
Natives of Greenland

Whaling in Deptford
Catching a whale off Deptford Pier

Baleen Whale & Whalers
A whale-boat approaches a Baleen Whale in the northern seas

Racinet Eskimo Costume
An illustration which depicts numerous articles of clothing, implements and artifacts of Eskimos

Futuristic seabed fishing -- the fishermen are all wearing diving helmets and oxygen packs, and are firing harpoons at the fish

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