"Fishhook - Kwakiutl-nootka Culture, Vancouver Island, British Columbia - Circa 1900"
Fishhook
Kwakiutl-Nootka culture, Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Around 1900
Wood, iron and natural fibres
H.: 16 ; L.: 11 cm
This hook has a wooden shank and iron barb.
It was used for halibut fishing.
Bibliography:
Two similar examples are reproduced in Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas, the James Hooper Collection, nos. 1501 and 1502, plate 185, page 317, and in Indian & Eskimo Artifacts of North America, by Charles Miles, page 40, no. 1.223.
Ref : 5546
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