Snow Snake

56-22-1

From: Canada | Ontario | Grand River Reservation

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 56-22-1
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Cayuga (uncertain)
Provenience Canada | Ontario | Grand River Reservation
Culture Area Northeast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Hickory | Lead
Description

Waxed hickory. Cast-on lead-inlay tip. Three inlaid dots surrounded by burned circles on top rear of head of snow snake (head thicker than tapered shaft). Finger-notched at butt end.

Length 206.75 cm
Outside Diameter 1.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of Grand River Delegation to 1956 Int'l Congress of Ethnological and Anthropological Sciences, Philadelphia, 1956

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