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Description: | Hole drilled in handle, as from display purposes. CULT North American Indian Arctic America North America This fish spear has a central shaft with two flaring arms lashed on to each side with sinew. The angled points on the ends of each arm turn in and up, pointing toward the central shaft.
This spear was originally catalogued as a fishhook from Samoa, donated by Dr. G Turner. However it was attributed to Alaska in 1978 and so cannot have been donated by Turner. It may be one of the 'arrows, fish gigs and small spears' from Unalaska mentioned by Captain John Laskey in 1813, in which case it is possible that it may have come from the third voyage of Captain James Cook. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | FISHING : ARCTIC : NAMERE : JEN : UCOOK : ETHNO2_2007 : ARCTIC : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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