Fish Spear
NA1252.1
Location: On Display in the Native North America Gallery
From: Alaska | Klukwan
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | NA1252.1 |
| Current Location | Native North America Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Chilkat | Tlingit |
| Provenience | Alaska | Klukwan |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Date Made | Late 19th century CE |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Hide | Metal |
| Description | Fish spear with a wooden shaft. Two smaller shafts are attached at one end with hide lashings. These smaller shafts have hooked iron blades attached at one end. The spear shaft has an iron spike fitted between the two barbed shafts. |
| Length | 152.08 cm |
| Width | 11.11 cm |
| Depth | 7.62 cm |
| Credit Line | Alaska Ethnological Expedition, George Byron Gordon, 1905 |
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