Fishing lure

Museum number:
2-7080
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Alternate number:
106 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.128
Description:
Fish shaped carved bone with incised dots on back. Curved iron hook, bent iron wire through tail.
Donor:
Harry Marcus Weston Edmonds
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Harry Marcus Weston Edmonds
Collection date:
1898-1904
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Lures
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 9.2 centimeters
Comment:
Published: ill. p. 126, D.J. Ray, The Eskimo of St. Michael and Vicinity as Related by H.M.W. Edmonds.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fishing lure, accession number 2-7080, described as Fish shaped carved bone with incised dots on back. Curved iron hook, bent iron wire through tail.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fishing lure, accession number 2-7080, described as Fish shaped carved bone with incised dots on back. Curved iron hook, bent iron wire through tail.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fishing lure, accession number 2-7080, described as Fish shaped carved bone with incised dots on back. Curved iron hook, bent iron wire through tail.

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