Halibut hook

Museum number:
2-15552
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
8 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.708
Description:
Halibut hook of wood with bone barb bound with cedar root.
Donor:
W. Barclay Stephens
Collection place:
Masset, Graham Island, Queen Charlotte Islands
Verbatim coll. place:
Canada; British Columbia; Queen Charlotte Islands; Masset
Culture or time period:
Haida
Collector:
Willie J. Clark Dodd
Collection date:
1887-1890
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Fishhooks
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1936
Context of use:
Text from Lowie Museum of Anthropology "Man ihe Inventor" exhibit, 1964: "The ... hooks ... are ... baited with squid. Often set in pairs, one above the other, the hooks float above the ocean floor attached to a stone sinker on the bottom. The sinker,
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 21 centimeters
Comment:
...When the fisherman feels the sinker move, he pulls in the line, thereby pulling the hook over, inverting the fish and making it relatively helpless. Object was originally attached to #2-15551.
Loans:
S1981-1982 #65: Artrain (July 30, 1982–December 14, 1983)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 5 titled Halibut hook, accession number 2-15552, described as Halibut hook of wood with bone barb bound with cedar root.Hearst Museum object 2 of 5 titled Halibut hook, accession number 2-15552, described as Halibut hook of wood with bone barb bound with cedar root.Hearst Museum object 3 of 5 titled Halibut hook, accession number 2-15552, described as Halibut hook of wood with bone barb bound with cedar root.Hearst Museum object 4 of 5 titled Halibut hook, accession number 2-15552, described as Halibut hook of wood with bone barb bound with cedar root.Hearst Museum object 5 of 5 titled Halibut hook, accession number 2-15552, described as Halibut hook of wood with bone barb bound with cedar root.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Halibut hook, accession number 2-15552, described as Halibut hook of wood with bone barb bound with cedar root.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Halibut hook, accession number 2-15552, described as Halibut hook of wood with bone barb bound with cedar root.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Halibut hook, accession number 2-15552, described as Halibut hook of wood with bone barb bound with cedar root.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Halibut hook, accession number 2-15552, described as Halibut hook of wood with bone barb bound with cedar root.

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