With carved head of bear on handle, wood handle wrapped with leather thong, iron blade.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Kodiak, Kodiak Island, Kodiak Island Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Kodiak
Culture or time period:
Tlingit
Collector:
B. G. McIntyre
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Iron (metal) and Leather
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 35.2 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: cf: "Yakutat South - Indian Art of the Northwest Coast", A. Wardwell, Chicago Art Institute, March-April 1964, figs. 110-116, and "University of Pennsylvania Museum Journal", Vol. III, (1912), p. 10.
Loans:
S1945-1946 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (March 11, 1946–October 28, 1955) and S1967-1968 #52: Fine Arts Patrons of Newport Harbor (December 28, 1967–March 19, 1968)