Fishing lure

Museum number:

2-48522

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Alternate number:

2-4483c (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.167

Description:

Fish carved of walrus ivory, inlaid eyes. Remnant baleen leader in tail. Orange auklet bill fragments on sinew cord remnant in perforation on underside.

Donor:

Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections

Collection place:

Bering Sea, Western Alaska

Verbatim coll. place:

Alaska

Culture or time period:

Alaskan Eskimo

Collector:

unknown

Materials:

Baleen and Wood (plant material)

Taxon:

Aethia and Odobenus rosmarus

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Lures

Function:

1.1 Hunting and Fishing

Accession date:

1904

Context of use:

Fishing. Originally part of 2-4483.

Department:

Native US and Canada (except California)

Dimensions:

length 6.5 centimeters

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