Hook

Museum number:
2-4258
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020004258
Alternate number:
x-404 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Curved spruce with hook of ivory attached at distal end with lashing of rawhide at two holes on the hook. This example is apparently undersized.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Unalaklik, Norton Sound, Nome Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Norton Sound; Unalaklik
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Rudolph Neumann
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Rawhide and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
for catching hold of pieces of blubber or flesh when "cutting in" a whale or walrus or dragging them round on shore or on the ice, or in the blubber rooms; intended for shore use; this example is apparently undersized.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 30 centimeters
Comment:
Second Orig. No.: Neumann 213. Remarks: "cf. 2-45571" "See Murdock, Eth. Results of the Point Barrow Expedition (9th ARBAED, pp. 310-311, Nelson Pl. XXXIII#8.
Loans:
S1955-1956 #2: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Michael J. Harner (October 19, 1955–October 19, 1955)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Hook, accession number 2-4258, described as Curved spruce with hook of ivory attached at distal end with lashing of rawhide at two holes on the hook. This example is apparently undersized.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Hook, accession number 2-4258, described as Curved spruce with hook of ivory attached at distal end with lashing of rawhide at two holes on the hook. This example is apparently undersized.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Hook, accession number 2-4258, described as Curved spruce with hook of ivory attached at distal end with lashing of rawhide at two holes on the hook. This example is apparently undersized.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Hook, accession number 2-4258, described as Curved spruce with hook of ivory attached at distal end with lashing of rawhide at two holes on the hook. This example is apparently undersized.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Hook, accession number 2-4258, described as Curved spruce with hook of ivory attached at distal end with lashing of rawhide at two holes on the hook. This example is apparently undersized.

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