Eelspear Head
THF199751 / Eelspear Head
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Artifact Overview
People have harvested eels using traps and spears for millennia. Fishers using a spear -- a barbed, multi-pronged spearhead affixed at the end of a long pole -- plunged it into habitats where native eels tend to hide. The eel spear impaled or entangled the slippery ray-finned fish.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Eelspear
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
2022.0.22.604
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Metal
Color
Black (Color)
Dimensions
Height: 0.125 in
Width: 4.25 in
Length: 9.75 in
Inscriptions
in two places on tang:
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