Fish spear with bob
Artist:
KINEEGAN
Medium: Wood, bone, gut
Classification: Weapons and Ammunition
Credit Line: Museum purchase
Object number: 1930.8.12
DescriptionBob is held in the left hand and used to attract the fish. Spear-thin wooden shaft with 3 barbed ivory points inset in splits in the wood and bound with rawhide. 2 points barbed on one side, one point barbed on both sides. Bob-long, triangular shaped piece of wood, shaped, gut line wound on tapered end.