13 Shell Fish Hooks
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: SMALL FISH HOOKS MADE IN ONE CIRCULAR PIECE OF BLACK-LIP OYSTER SHELL WITH COCONUT FIBER SNOOD ATTACHED. ONE HOOK IS BROKEN. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAGS, 771, 773, 777. THERE ARE TWELVE OF THESE HOOKS IN STORAGE, AND ONE ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE PACIFIC HALL, N.M.N.H., 1989 [exhibit dismantled in 2004, all 13 now in storage].
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1975: 12 FOUND. ALL ONE PIECE CIRCULAR BLACK-LIP OYSTER SHELL WITH SNOOD ATTACHED." FROM CARD: "DUP. CARD. 3796A. CUT FROM ABALONE SHELL; BARBLESS HOOK; SENNIT LINE ATTACHED. LOANED TO BISHOP MUSEUM 1/23/78. RETURNED FROM BISHOP MUSEUM 2/15/78. (3796)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Jan 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 13
place: label: Place
content: Penrhyn Atoll, Cook Islands, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tongarevan
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3796-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fish Hook
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 3.6 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 4.5 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 5.6 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 7 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 2.6 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 3.2 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 4.1 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 4.6 cm