Fishing lure

Museum number:

2-4479

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Alternate number:

X-625 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.167

Description:

Bone fishing lure. Large image of a fish, inlaid eye, perforations (2) at top.

Donor:

Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections

Collection place:

Alaska

Verbatim coll. place:

Alaska

Culture or time period:

Alaskan Eskimo

Collector:

unknown

Materials:

Wood (plant material)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Lures

Function:

1.1 Hunting and Fishing

Accession date:

1904

Context of use:

For use with hand fish spears to attract pickeral and large whitefish. The 2 holes are for sinew cords.

Department:

Native US and Canada (except California)

Dimensions:

length 24.2 centimeters

Comment:

Remarks: cf. Nelson p. 195 and pl. LXVII#6. Cf. 2-2708.

Loans:

S1964-1965 #9: University of California, Davis (September 3, 1964–January 1965)

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