Object Number | NA1251 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Chilkat | Tlingit |
Provenience | Alaska | Klukwan |
Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Wood | Hide |
Description | Wooden shaft for a fish spear. A slot is present at one end with hide lashings wrapped around the opening. Lashings are also wrapped around the spear shaft close to the same end and likely would have held two smaller shafts with barbed ends. |
Length | 94 cm |
Width | 3.4 cm |
Credit Line | Alaska Ethnological Expedition, George Byron Gordon, 1905 |
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