Roasting Stick

50-50-6

From: United States of America | Alaska | Angoon Area | Ketintcian | Killisnoo Harbor | Admiralty Island

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 50-50-6
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Tlingit
Provenience United States of America | Alaska | Angoon Area | Ketintcian | Killisnoo Harbor | Admiralty Island
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Locus Shiskin Smokehouse
Section American
Materials Wood
Description

Additional piece of wood nailed on at one end, the other end left free. Fish could be held between the added strip and the shaft as in a split shaft. Used in similar manner as 50-50-4. (From Shiskin smoke house, an abandoned structure.)

Length 50.5 Measurement Unit Not Provided
Width 2 Measurement Unit Not Provided
Credit Line Survey of Northern Tlingit Country, Frederica de Laguna, 1950

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