Hooks

Museum number:
1-14539
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1651 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.353
Description:
Fishhooks (3), wood shaft with bone points, lashed together with string (iris fiber?), all on string leader line.
Donor:
American Museum of Natural History
Collection place:
Fall River Valley, Shasta County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Shasta; Fall River Valley
Culture or time period:
Achumawi
Collector:
Roland Burrage Dixon
Collection date:
1900
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1908
Context of use:
For larger fish (fide Lawrence E. Dawson).
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
5.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Hooks, accession number 1-14539, described as Fishhooks (3), wood shaft with bone points, lashed together with string (iris fiber?), all on string leader line.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Hooks, accession number 1-14539, described as Fishhooks (3), wood shaft with bone points, lashed together with string (iris fiber?), all on string leader line.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Hooks, accession number 1-14539, described as Fishhooks (3), wood shaft with bone points, lashed together with string (iris fiber?), all on string leader line.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Hooks, accession number 1-14539, described as Fishhooks (3), wood shaft with bone points, lashed together with string (iris fiber?), all on string leader line.

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