Pear Shaped Stone Net Sinker
Coast Salish
First Nation
Northwest Coast
Stone
Overall: 2 5/16 × 1 1/4 in. (5.8 × 3.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of W. Wedgwood Bowen
39.45.7682
Geography
Place Found: Salt Spring Island, Canada, North America
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Hunting and Fishing
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Northwest Coast
Funerary Objects
Not on view
Provenance
Collected ["mostly purchased'] by Wilfrid Wedgwood Bowen (1899-1987), on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia; given to present collection, 1939.
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