Fishing tackle

Museum number:
2-4465
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Alternate number:
x-611 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Small ornamented hook and large stone sinker with ivory cap. Hook is black stone and walrus ivory with 2 blue beads and orange yellow pieces from auklet's bill. Sinker is banded black and white stone fitted to piece of walrus ivory.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Bering Sea, Western Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Bering Sea
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Fremont Morse
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Glass (material), Quill (spine material), Rawhide, and Sinew (material)
Taxon:
Aethia and Odobenus rosmarus
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Fishing tackle
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
For sculpin.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 3.5 centimeters and length 11.7 centimeters
Comment:
References: cf. Nelson, p. 178 and pl. LXIX.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fishing tackle, accession number 2-4465, described as Small ornamented hook and large stone sinker with ivory cap. Hook is black stone and walrus ivory with 2 blue beads and orange yellow pieces from auklet's bill. Sinker is banded black and white stone fitted to piece of walrus ivory.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fishing tackle, accession number 2-4465, described as Small ornamented hook and large stone sinker with ivory cap. Hook is black stone and walrus ivory with 2 blue beads and orange yellow pieces from auklet's bill. Sinker is banded black and white stone fitted to piece of walrus ivory.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fishing tackle, accession number 2-4465, described as Small ornamented hook and large stone sinker with ivory cap. Hook is black stone and walrus ivory with 2 blue beads and orange yellow pieces from auklet's bill. Sinker is banded black and white stone fitted to piece of walrus ivory.

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