- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- wood; bone; skin; hair; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 104.18.1012
- Description
- A long, round peeled stick has a pointed half bone embedded into one end. The protruding bone is 14.0 cm long. On the other end is a collar of brown buckskin with fringes. A 17.0 cm long buckskin is at the centre of the shaft as a hand grip, on each end is a tuft of fur. Above the centre is a 1…
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- Title
- Fishing Spear
- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- wood; bone; skin; hair; glass
- Dimensions
- 145.0 cm
- Description
- A long, round peeled stick has a pointed half bone embedded into one end. The protruding bone is 14.0 cm long. On the other end is a collar of brown buckskin with fringes. A 17.0 cm long buckskin is at the centre of the shaft as a hand grip, on each end is a tuft of fur. Above the centre is a 10.0 cm wide band of beads, two orange and one black. Below centre is a 10.0 cm wide band of beads white and dark brown.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- activities
- fishing
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.18.1012
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