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Date
1970 – 1980
Material
wood; bone; sinew
Catalogue Number
104.05.0055
Description
Long flat simply carved wooden shaft tapering to point at end. Two thin sticks of bone lashed to either side of other end with sinew, and long needle of bone drilled into end of wood between with small bone barbs protruding from inside tips of flat bones toward point of central bone needle.
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Title
Fish Spear
Date
1970 – 1980
Material
wood; bone; sinew
Dimensions
1.1 x 5.5 x 51.7 cm
Description
Long flat simply carved wooden shaft tapering to point at end. Two thin sticks of bone lashed to either side of other end with sinew, and long needle of bone drilled into end of wood between with small bone barbs protruding from inside tips of flat bones toward point of central bone needle.
Subject
fishing
Inuit
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
104.05.0055
Images
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