Fish-Hook And Line
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1875
label: Collection Date
content: 1874
name: label: Collector
content: Col. Albert B. Steinberger
label: Donor Name
content: Col. Albert B. Steinberger
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SHANK OF WHITE SHELL TO ACT AS A LURE. WHILE THE POINT IS MADE OF AMBER COLORED TORTOISE SHELL AND IS BOUND ON THROUGH TWO HOLES IN ITS BASE." FROM CARD: "FISHING-LINE.--MADE OF TWINED CORD. SHANK OF THE HOOK OF PEARL SHELL, TO WHICH IS LASHED A FLUKE OF TORTOISE SHELL. AT THE THE LOWER END OF THE HOOK HANGS A TASSEL OF FRAYED TAPA, PROBABLY AS A DECOY. LENGTH OF HOOK 2 INCHES. SAMOAN ISLANDS, 1874. 13,662. COLLECTED BY COL. A. B. STEINBERGER."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
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
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 003313
label: USNM Number
content: E13662-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fish Hook/Fish Line