Compound fishhook of sheep bone attached to wood with sinew. Gifford bone tool type W1.
Donor:
Ishi
Collection place:
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; San Francisco
Culture or time period:
Yana
Maker or artist:
Ishi
Collection date:
1913
Materials:
Bone (material) (hook), Sinew (material) (wrapping), and Wood (plant material) (hook)
Taxon:
Ovis aries
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Fishhooks
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1914 and 1915
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Photo: 15-20153. Published: AR 3:2 Gifford / 24 (W1), p. 237
Loans:
S1961-1962 #31: University Relations (UC Berkeley) (December 5, 1961–December 6, 1961), S1962-1963 #26: California State Indian Museum (November 15, 1962–October 7, 1964), S1966-1967 #9: Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo (October 10, 1966–December 17, 1966), S1967-1968 #80: California League of American Indians (January 26, 1968–January 29, 1968), S1969-1970 #64: California State University, Chico (December 31, 1969–August 31, 1970), S1970-1971 #25: Oakland Museum of California (September 25, 1970–April 9, 1971), S2008-2009 #7: California Indian Museum and Cultural Center (January 22, 2010–November 3, 2014), and S2018-2019 #4: Bundeskunsthalle (August 27, 2019–January 16, 2020)