Fishhook

Museum number:
2-4470
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
x-616 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Large fish hook of ivory and iron. "fossil" ivory with iron hook, ivory is fish shaped. Sinew snell or leader.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Kotzebue Sound, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Kotzebue Sound
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Rudolph Neumann
Materials:
Iron (metal)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Fishhooks
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Used for fishing.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 12 centimeters
Comment:
Second Orig. No.: Neumann #277.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fishhook, accession number 2-4470, described as Large fish hook of ivory and iron. "fossil" ivory with iron hook, ivory is fish shaped. Sinew snell or leader.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fishhook, accession number 2-4470, described as Large fish hook of ivory and iron. "fossil" ivory with iron hook, ivory is fish shaped. Sinew snell or leader.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fishhook, accession number 2-4470, described as Large fish hook of ivory and iron. "fossil" ivory with iron hook, ivory is fish shaped. Sinew snell or leader.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fishhook, accession number 2-4470, described as Large fish hook of ivory and iron. "fossil" ivory with iron hook, ivory is fish shaped. Sinew snell or leader.

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