Hook, leader, and sinker

Object status:
Deaccessioned
Museum number:
2-2015
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Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Fish-shaped carved walrus ivory lure with iron hook, orange fragment, probably from auklet bill; baleen leader.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwest Bering Sea, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Lower Yukon / NW Behring Sea
Culture or time period:
Lower Yukon River Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Taxon:
Aethia and Odobenus rosmarus
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Hook, leader, and sinker, accession number 2-2015, described as Fish-shaped carved walrus ivory lure with iron hook, orange fragment, probably from auklet bill; baleen leader.

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