- 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.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0055
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