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Halibut Hook1362
Lidded Basket1-1081

The grass is natural, red, purple, green, and pink.

Culture
Makah
Material
cedar bark and grass
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Basketry Covered Bottle1994-83/8
Whale Harpoon Point | Harpoon Lanyard1-1477
Lidded Basket2.5E1134
Lidded Basket2.5E949
Lidded Basket2.5E984
Lidded Basket2.5E1110
Bentwood Halibut Hook637

Halibut are flat fish that feed close to the bottom at offshore banks, and which can attain a weight of two hundred pounds. They are powerful, and Indian fishermen in their small canoes, often far from land, took care not to catch one that was too big to handle. The hooks were size-selective, too large for small fish and too small for those of unmanageable size. Halibut hooks of the Makah and their neighbors, for whom the fish was a staple of life, were of graceful U-form, bent of wood and armed with a barb of bone, or later, iron. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)

Culture
Makah
Material
wood, spruce root, bone and sinew
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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