Wooden shuttle. The shuttle's boat-style rectangular body has a large rectangular cutout, and an eye on one side. Each end of the body tapers to a slightly-upturned and dull point. Within the rectangular cutout, there is a wooden pin inserted through a bobbin, with the pin's tip inserted into a hole on one side, and the square end held in the notch.

Net shuttle with fibre. Flat piece of wood with rounded point on leading end. Wide semi-circular notch at the other end with two prongs. Long hole cut out of the interior except for a single spike left protruding with fibre wound around it. Grass(?) is wound through the fibre.

« In making a net of this type, a wooden netting needle was used. The single specimen in the Speck collection is flat, pointed at one end, and concave at the other; it is made of birch wood. A portion of the center has been removed, leaving a needle-like spike of wood extending from the center of the needle almost to the tip. A section of netting twine is attached (fig. 3e). » Vanstone, James W. "The Speck Collection of Montagnais Material Culture from the Lower St. Lawrence Drainage, Quebec." Fieldiana. Anthropology. New Series, No. 5 (October 29, 1982), p.7, fig 3e (p.31).

Axel Rasmussen Collection. Collected: Axel Rasmussen