One-Piece Bone Fishhook
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Jan 1867
name: label: Donor Name
content: John Varden
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BONE (WHALE?) CUT SO SIDES ARE FLAT. STRAIGHT SHANK, 5/8" WIDE, WITH CURVED BEND WHERE WIDEST IS 3/4", POINT CURVING UP AND SLIGHTLY TOWARD SHANK WHERE GAP IS 7/8". SMALL BARB ON INNER CURVE OF POINT. BIFID KNOB AT EXTREME DISTAL END TO WHICH SNOOD IS STILL ATTACHED AND WHIPPED. ORIGINALLY CATALOGED AS "POLYNESIAN," NOW IDENTIFIED AS MARQUESAS. SHR 3/10/61."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Feb 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Marquesas Islands, France, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 68A00002
label: USNM Number
content: E5460-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fishhook