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- Date
- 1960 – 1970
- Material
- wood; antler; hair; feather; skin; sinew
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0044
- Description
- Fishing spear made from two prongs of an antler attached to wooden stick handle with a strip of rawhide. Handle completely wrapped with wide buckskin strips and three bands of red brown fur, one at each end and in middle. Three groups of short white feathers hang from underside of handle. Two small…
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- Title
- Fishing Spear
- Date
- 1960 – 1970
- Material
- wood; antler; hair; feather; skin; sinew
- Dimensions
- 7.5 x 7.5 x 47.0 cm
- Description
- Fishing spear made from two prongs of an antler attached to wooden stick handle with a strip of rawhide. Handle completely wrapped with wide buckskin strips and three bands of red brown fur, one at each end and in middle. Three groups of short white feathers hang from underside of handle. Two small barbs of antler tied tightly to middle of prongs with sinew.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- fishing
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0044
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- 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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