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.

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• Type of Item leister
• Culture Inuit
• Material wood, rawhide skin, horn, bone, metal
• Measurements height 143.0 cm, width 20.0 cm, depth 3.0 cm (overall)

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• Previous Owner Turrall Adcock Moore
• Received from Turrall Adcock Moore

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• Made in Holman, Ulukhaktok

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• Creation Date before 1970
• Ownership Date before October 17, 2016
• Acquisition Date on October 17, 2016

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• Condition good
• Accession Number 3204/0016