Stone Sinker
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: GROOVED BASALT SINKER, ROUND WITH GROOVE DOWN CENTER, AND TWISTED AND BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER CORD TIED AROUND WITH THREE STRANDS HANGING FREE. THE HOOK HAS BEEN SEPARATED AND LOST. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. EXAMINED AND SAMPLED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, JUNE 1941.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3398-99. CAT. 3398, ORIG. 1171. SIMPLE HOOK, BLACK TORTOISE SHELL, 1.8" HIGH, SENNIT SNOOD WRAPPED WITH A SOFT BROWNISH FIBRE, ATTACHED TO A GROOVED BASALT SINKER, 2.8" LONG, BY A SENNIT BRAID. (THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41)."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 1171 as "Sinker and tortoise-shell hook used for deep water fishing, by the Samoans."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: American Samoa (not certain), Samoa (not certain) / United States (not certain), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Samoan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3398-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sinker
physicalDescription: label: Length - Stone
content: 7 cm
label: Unknown - Cord
content: 9 cm