Fishing tackle

Museum number:
2-4453
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020004453
Alternate number:
x-599 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Shuttle shaped wood rod, baleen line, ivory jig with multiple copper hooks. Cylindrical solid copper fish weight.
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:
Baleen and Copper (metal)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Fishing tackle
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Fishing gear for catching tomcod, losh/pickeral.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 42.5 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: cf. Murdoch, p. 282, text and fig. 274.
Loans:
S1964-1965 #44: Science Center (Diablo Valley College) (December 30, 1964–March 4, 1965) and S1966-1967 #10: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (September 29, 1966–September 11, 1967)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fishing tackle, accession number 2-4453, described as Shuttle shaped wood rod, baleen line, ivory jig with multiple copper hooks. Cylindrical solid copper fish weight.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fishing tackle, accession number 2-4453, described as Shuttle shaped wood rod, baleen line, ivory jig with multiple copper hooks. Cylindrical solid copper fish weight.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fishing tackle, accession number 2-4453, described as Shuttle shaped wood rod, baleen line, ivory jig with multiple copper hooks. Cylindrical solid copper fish weight.

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