Fish spear model. Made of a commercial wood shaft, three prongs: center one is a screw driver blade and projects from shaft; the two side prongs are made of bone, each have a single nail-like metal projection facing into the center; with white white cotton cordage binding.
Donor:
Mrs. Jean Paxton
Collection place:
Resolute Bay, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Nunavut
Culture or time period:
Inuit
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spears (weapons)
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
This object record was created because location data had been entered into the PHOEBE database without a corresponding object record. (J. Meehan 6/2003)