Carved whale rib fashioned into a spear (?), anima

Made:: 1871-1920 in Canada

Carved whale rib fashioned into a spear (?)
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Carved whale rib fashioned into a spear (?), animal head at one end blade at the other, bowed, North West Coast Indian Haida tribe, Canada (?) and USA (?), 1871-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A665082

Materials:: bone, whale's rib

Measurements:: length 1 mm
blade: width 51 mm
thickness 30 mm

type:: spears

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Carved whale rib fashioned into a spear (?), anima

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