Harpoon

James Murray Yale described this harpoon in his collection list as "Instead of a piece of handle to this fork, put one of 80 or 90 long with a cord of 35 or 40 fathoms to that which holds the barbs and it may then be called a Fraser’s River Indian Sturgeon Spear".

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© Courtesy of Perth Museum & Art Gallery, Perth and Kinross Council. 1978.517

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