Digging Implement
29-175-489
From: Canada | British Columbia | Vancouver Island
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 29-175-489 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Kwakiutl |
| Provenience | Canada | British Columbia | Vancouver Island |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood |
| Description | Clover digging stick. Porous with insect holes, broken and glued together. Digging end (almost half of total length has triangular cross section and is slightly wider near its upper end, constricting again next to the knob-like bulge which divides this section from stem. Point of digging end broken. Stem almost round in cross section. Handle end broken at tip, narrower than stem, (though slightly wider at dividing line) |
| Length | 101 cm |
| Width | 5.6 cm |
| Credit Line | Exchange with George G. Heye, 1917 |
| Other Number | 1/3193 - Collector Number |
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