Fishing tackle

Museum number:
2-5700
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020005700
Alternate number:
KM/14 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.15
Description:
Tomcod rod with bone guide in place with root binding. Re - carved "fossil" ivory sinker perforated at each end. Baleen line, birdquill leader, hook missing.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Fishing tackle
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
September 1901
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 68 centimeters and length 14.5 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: Compare 2-2906, Eskimo.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fishing tackle, accession number 2-5700, described as Tomcod rod with bone guide in place with root binding. Re - carved "fossil" ivory sinker perforated at each end. Baleen line, birdquill leader, hook missing.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fishing tackle, accession number 2-5700, described as Tomcod rod with bone guide in place with root binding. Re - carved "fossil" ivory sinker perforated at each end. Baleen line, birdquill leader, hook missing.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fishing tackle, accession number 2-5700, described as Tomcod rod with bone guide in place with root binding. Re - carved "fossil" ivory sinker perforated at each end. Baleen line, birdquill leader, hook missing.

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