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Fishing spear pike. Oroche

Title:

Fishing spear pike

Ethnic groups:

Oroche

Territory:

river Iman, Ussuri Krai

Date:

late 19th - early 20th century

Collectors-person:
Arseniev Vladimir K.
Material:

Metal: iron; threads: plant fiber: bast (rope); wood

Dimensions:

length 21.5; width 9.0

Number:

РЭМ 1870-106

Annotation:

Three-pronged iron spear pike, attached with a rope to a small gouged piece of wood. It was hafted on a pole with the gouged end. Fishing was of great importance to many groups of the Udege. Mostly, it was men who went fishing. The spear of two types, fixed and detachable, was among the essential fishing implements.

Albums:
“... You can rely on me”: Vladimir Arseniev’s collections in the Russian Museum of Ethnography
Rus:
Наконечник остроги. Орочи