Fishhook

Museum number:
1-42832a
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm2101042832a
Alternate number:
1653 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.704
Description:
(b)Small bundle, wrapped with Apocynum string; (a) bone fish hook attached. 42830 to 42834 are all painted or dusted with powdered red paint, as is the whole inside of the bird skin wrapping 42829.
Donor:
Beverly Blackmer and Francesca Blackmer Wigg
Collection place:
NV-Ch-35 (Humboldt Cave), Churchill County, Nevada
Collector:
Alex D. Krieger and Robert Fleming Heizer
Collection date:
June 1936
Taxon:
Apocynum
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Fishhooks
Accession date:
1936
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fishhook, accession number 1-42832a, described as (b)Small bundle, wrapped with Apocynum string; (a) bone fish hook attached. 42830 to 42834 are all painted or dusted with powdered red paint, as is the whole inside of the bird skin wrapping 42829.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fishhook, accession number 1-42832a, described as (b)Small bundle, wrapped with Apocynum string; (a) bone fish hook attached. 42830 to 42834 are all painted or dusted with powdered red paint, as is the whole inside of the bird skin wrapping 42829.

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