МАЭ № 2925-93/b

Blade container

Katmai

19th century

wood, sinew

length 11.4 cm, width 3.6 cm, thickness 2.4 cm.

Spears of this same type were used by the Kodiak Alutiit. Heirmonk Gedeon wrote about their spears: “The shaft of a spear was three quarters of (an arshin (Russian measure of 28 inches)—S. Korsun.) Or longer, with a tip made from caribou horn, with three notches (with three notches. –S.Korsun.) and with stone or copper tips (edges.—S.Korsun.) of one and one half vershoks in length (a vershok is 1 3/4 inches or 4.4 centimeters)” (Gedeon 1994: 61).

Ethnography of America