Painted bright blue on top side and red on back. Made of carved wood; the remains of a dart is attached on the top surface by a wood peg. This item was probably part of a model showing a hunter casting his dart. This rectangular shaped board was used by the Aleuts.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Aleut
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1898
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Atlatls and Carvings (visual works)
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing and 5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Probably goes with a kayak model (fide Lydia Black, 1982)