Fish spear/Leister
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Mi'kmaq (Micmac)
- Collector
- Frederick Johnson (Fred Johnson/Frederick M. Johnson), Non-Indian, 1904-1994
- Collection History
- Collected in 1930 by anthropologist Frederick Johnson (1904-1994) during fieldwork sponsored by MAI.
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- Catalog Number
- 17/6409
- Barcode
- 176409.000
- Object Type
- Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
- Native Term
- wayá-gðnigðnðt
- Object Name
- Fish spear/Leister
- Media/Materials
- Wood
- Techniques
- Carved
- Place
- Eskasoni Reserve; Cape Breton County; Nova Scotia; Canada
- Island Name
- Cape Breton Island
- See related items
- Mi'kmaq (Micmac)
- Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_188906
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws67e03e0da-205a-4abd-b7c8-0cc33c8fd0c2
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