Halibut Hook Item Number: 25.0/322 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
This hook is lacking the lashings at the joint of the two arms and the seat of the barb. The short length of cord knotted to the carved arm is of twisted spruce root. The figures carved in the wood are a bird, perhaps an eagle, clutching the nose of a halibut with its talons. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)
Item History
- Received from Mrs. Anne Gerber
What
- Name
- Halibut Hook
- Identification Number
- 25.0/322
- Type of Item
- halibut hook
- Material
- wood and cedar root
- Manufacturing Technique
- carved
- Overall
- length 10.6 in
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit
- Received from
- Mrs. Anne Gerber
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Sidney Gerber Collection, Gift of Anne Gerber
- Motif
- Bird | Halibut
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection