Náxw (Halibut Hook)

Tlingit
Northwest Coast

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collected about 1899

Wood, bone, and vegetable fiber

Overall: 10 3/16 × 2 3/8 × 1 1/8 in. (25.8 × 6 × 2.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dorothy Vaughan Haberman

159.68.14508

Geography

Place Made: Wrangell, United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Hunting and Fishing

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Northwest Coast

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by Fred W. Carlyon (1865-1956), in Wrangell, Alaska, about 1899; to his niece, Dorothy K. Vaughan Haberman (1903-1992), about 1956; given to present collection, 1959 [received through the Stefansson Collection, Dartmouth College.]

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