Bone lure

bone lure

ESKIMO ITEMS
Arctic regions
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Bone lure for fish 5-3/4" long, pierced at one end for line and lacking inlay of contrasting color and strip of red wattle from sea puffin. Lure was jigged through hole in ice and Eskimo held short spear upon which fish was impaled as it followed lure upwards. From Hooper Bay.


1964.1453

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