t’eixáa (fishhook)
Tlingit
Northwest Coast
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
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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