Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
99.21.007
Accession#:
99.21
Credit Line:
Donated by Mary Ann Parke.
Object Name:
Float, Halibut
Title:
Tlingit Wooden Halibut Float, bird
Date:
1900
Description:
Hand carved wooden Tlingit halibut float. One end tapered to duck head, other end tapered to carved knob. Neck of knob in—cut suitable for holding line on float, probably spruce. "M" whittled into back of duck. 0.5 inch diameter ring carved into end of knob. Wood grain runs with length of float.
Notes:
Collect & preserved by Thomas s. Parke; likely beach combed somewhere in SOUTHEAST Alaska; identified as halibut hook by Steve Henrikson, ASM.
See 99.21.006 halibut hook from same collection.
Check do file for resource material: "Stewart, Hilary, 19873, Artifact of the Northwest Coast Indians" Hancock House Publishers, p. 131.
Search Terms:
Tlingit
Native
Fishing
Subsistence
T&E
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