Fishing tackle
- Museum number:
- 2-4460
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020004460
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Fish hook with ivory sinker. Compound ivory hook has 4 iron points. Recarved "fossil" ivory sinker attached with baleen leader.
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- unknown
- Materials:
- Rawhide
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Fishing tackle
- Function:
- 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- For tomcod fishing
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 11 centimeters and length 5.5 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-