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Hi All,
I picked this up some time ago and just trying to make room on a wall for it. I'm not sure what this is, maybe a dog fish/shark? Large piece, 38"L, design on burlap which makes me think 1970s
any information appreciated
thanks for looking

 

It is a whale of some sort, cx.

 

I think, lol.

 

https://tinyurl.com/y5pa6y4t

 

Calling @komokwa , etc.

 

thanks sabre123 I thought a whale at first but the fin on top and the tail look wrong to me, but I've been wrong many times before

 

Ya, you may be right. I don't see any vertical configs.

 

Looks like a salmon,the tail is in the wrong direction.

 

It is a Salmon. When the salmon enter the rivers and creeks on their way upstream to spawn, they get a jagged hooked nose happening. Added to that, the picture shows an adipose fin which only members of the salmonidae genus posses.

 

Salmon makes more sense.

 

It would think it's an orca. You can do a Google Images search for both "Haida orca" and "Haida salmon" to compare and decide. But typically a Haida salmon looks like this. The proportions are more fish-like.

Debora

 

Not a whale or orca, but a salmon. With the jagged teeth and nose as mentioned - there might be a specific name for that sort of salmon. But definitely within the normal stylistic parameters for salmon.
But not within the normal parameters for whale or orca; it would have to have a blowhole, indicated in a couple of traditional ways.
These burlap hangings do date to the 70's or so, I don't recall who was making them.

 

I go fishing at least 3 times a week and live on a salmon stream in the midst of west-coast culture. It is a salmon, probably a pink. Didn't I mention the adipose fin already?
Adipose fin. The adipose fin is a small fleshy fin found posterior to the dorsal fin and anterior of the caudal fin. It is only found on few fish, including trout, salmon, and catfish. When it was named, it was thought to hold fat, or adipose, tissue.

 

A submarine.

 

Someone recently did a graphic of the Yellow Submarine, NW Coast Native style, I think...

 

thanks for all the replies folks

what do mean the tail is in the wrong direction?

I discounted salmon as the nose/mouth doesn't look right to me but it seems to be the popular choice, thanks folks

 

toothy critter when spawning...

 

Fish tails move side to side,mammal tails move up and down.

 

Killer whale...
when drawing the tail , it's normally splayed..