Unalashkan Throwing-Board

Unalashkan Throwing-Board

This is an arctic Unalashkan (Southern) style throwing-board. The original was collected in Unalashka, Alaska in 1874. The image is from "Throwing-Sticks In The National Museum" by Otis T. Mason, published by the Smithsonian Institute in 1890.

Here is the accompanying text:
Unalashkan throwing-stick. It would be better to call this form the Southern type. The noticeable features in all our specimens are the parallel sides, the hard material, thinness, the carving for the fingers, but above all the reappearance of the eccentric cavity for the index finger. This cavity is not a great perforation, as in the Point Barrow type, but an eccentric pocket, a compromise between the Northern cavity and that of the East.

Material:
Wood, 17 1/2" x 1 1/2" x 1/2"
Wood, 3/4" x 1/2" x 3/8"

Construction:


Unalashkan Throwing-Board



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