Fish Spear
| Object Number: | NA1252 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Chilkat Tlingit |
| Provenience: | Alaska Klukwan |
| Culture Area: | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Section: | American |
| Materials: | Wood Hide Metal |
| Length: | 167 cm |
| Width: | 10 cm |
| Depth: | 6 cm |
| Credit Line: | Alaska Ethnological Expedition, George Byron Gordon, 1905 |
Description
Fish spear with a wooden shaft. Two smaller shafts are attached at one end with hide lashings. These smaller shafts have hooked iron blades attached at one end. The spear shaft has an iron spike fitted between the two barbed shafts.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Alaskan Northwest Coast Collection ( Feb 1926) | View Objects in Exhibition |
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