t’eixáa (fishhook)

Tlingit
Northwest Coast

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collected 1905

Wood, cord, iron, and cork

Overall: 9 5/8 × 1 5/8 in. (24.5 × 4.1 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill

46.17.9578

Geography

Place Made: Sitka, United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Hunting and Fishing

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Northwest Coast

Not on view

Course History

WRIT 7 , Religion and Literature: Re-visioning the Natural, Nancy Crumbine, Spring 2015

ANTH 74, The Human Spectrum, Nate Dominy, Spring 2022

Publication History

Tamara Northern, Native American Art, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, 1985, p. 8, no. 4.

Provenance

Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Sitka, Alaska, probably 1905; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.

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