A FINE AND RARE TLINGIT SPEAR-THROWER, atlatl , the finial a bird of prey holding in its talons the head of a seal with its young on its back, the surface extensively carved with totemic motifs including those of a narwhal whose tusk joins the aperture, a human head at the tapered base whose inverted body is carved on the reverse below a bear holding a fish in a hatched recessed panel, hatched parallel bands each side of the groove, two eyes and tail feathers of the bird with translucent blue and green glass bead inlays, fine dark glossy patina, the bird's head an old restoration, late 18th/early 19th century 37.5cm. long
A FINE AND RARE TLINGIT SPEAR-THROWER, atlatl , the finial a bird of prey holding in its talons the head of a seal with its young on its back, the surface extensively carved with totemic motifs including those of a narwhal whose tusk joins the aperture, a human head at the tapered base whose inverted body is carved on the reverse below a bear holding a fish in a hatched recessed panel, hatched parallel bands each side of the groove, two eyes and tail feathers of the bird with translucent blue and green glass bead inlays, fine dark glossy patina, the bird's head an old restoration, late 18th/early 19th century 37.5cm. long
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