Name/Title
SpikeEntry/Object ID
L2020.012.001Description
Bronze spike, looks like upper portion is missing. Spike looks handmade. Wood remnant is still around the upper portion. This spike is thought to be from the shipwreck Ancon, it is a shipwreck artifact not clearly identified in records because it has been associated with spike 1990.009.002. (see file). The Ancon was a wooden sidewheel paddle steamship grounded in 1886 at Icy Straits, Alaska and repaired. Final wreck was in Naha Bay near Loring Alaska, a cannery community, in the year 1889. On board was the artist Albert Bierstad who painted the "Wreck of the Ancon". See file.
