Fishing lure

Museum number:
2-2037
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Ivory, tapered. Serrated edges on wider part. Single perforation, iron hook, remnant sinew leader.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Unalakleet, Norton Sound, Nome Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Norton Sound; Unalakleet
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
ca. 1895
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Lures
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Context of use:
Probably for catching pickeral and whitefish
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 7.5 centimeters
Comment:
References: cf. Nelson Pl. LXVIII fig. 19 and 2-2013, 2037.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fishing lure, accession number 2-2037, described as Ivory, tapered. Serrated edges on wider part. Single perforation, iron hook, remnant sinew leader.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fishing lure, accession number 2-2037, described as Ivory, tapered. Serrated edges on wider part. Single perforation, iron hook, remnant sinew leader.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fishing lure, accession number 2-2037, described as Ivory, tapered. Serrated edges on wider part. Single perforation, iron hook, remnant sinew leader.

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