Leister Item Number: 3204/16 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Leister type spear made of wood, bone, sinew, steel. Handle is a long, straight, squared rod of wood with a flat butt. At top a thick wrapping of rawhide with hair connects handle to spear head. Head is made of two curving outer arms of horn, thick at top where each holds a metal spike over a central piece of bone barbed at its end.
Narrative
Given to the donor, around 1972, by someone who had been living in Holman in the 1960s.
Item History
- Made in Holman, Northwest Territories, Canada and Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada before 1970
- Owned by Turrall Adcock Moore before October 17, 2016
- Received from Turrall Adcock Moore (Donor) on October 17, 2016
What
Who
- Culture
- Inuit
- Previous Owner
- Turrall Adcock Moore
- Received from
- Turrall Adcock Moore (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Holman, Northwest Territories, Canada and Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada
When
- Creation Date
- before 1970
- Ownership Date
- before October 17, 2016
- Acquisition Date
- on October 17, 2016
Other
- Condition
- good
- Accession Number
- 3204/0016