Harpoon Head Pendant

More than 100 beach ridges along 70 miles of shoreline on the Chukchi Sea provide evidence of human use for 5,000 years, and the Inupiat continue to use the area today. Human occupation of the cape spans numerous cultural traditions and changes in subsistence, settlement, and socio-economic organization that occurred throughout the region. The Chukchi Sea provided marine mammals, including seals and whales, and the artic terrain provided terrestrial resources.

This miniature harpoon head pendant of antler with a brass inset blade demonstrates the rich resources of both land and sea around Cape Krusenstern.