Fish spear
- Description
- The upper prong was aimed at its target and, due to the illusion caused by refraction, the other two points speared the fish. Collected 1826-7 on HMS Blossom.
- Accession Loan No.
- 51/1916/9
- Collection Class
- Arms and armour
- Common Name
- fish spear
- Simple Name
- spear
- Full Name
- fish spear
- Dimensions
- whole length 853 mm
- Cultural Group
- Inupiat or Yup’ik Eskimo
- Production County
- Bering Strait / Northwest Alaska
- Production Area Region
- N
- Production Continent
- America
- Family Group
- Material
- wood; bone; sinew
- Function Name
- weapon
- Function Detail
- Thrown from a kayak using a throwing board, atlatl, to increase the speed of the spear. The spear was thrown to skim over the water, to catch waterfowl by the neck or wing during the summer moult when they could not fly.
- Collection Area Region
- N
- Collection Continent
- America
