Fish Hook
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Dec 1866
name: label: Donor Name
content: Roderick R. MacFarlane
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 5 ARCTIC, PG. 352, FIG. 6A."
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/187 , retrieved 12-17-2019: This is a set of eight fish lures with shanks made from antler and bone and with iron hooks. The shank of each lure is narrow at one end, where a pair of holes has been drilled for attaching to a fishing line, and broader at the opposite end where a hook has been inserted into a drilled hole. Most of these lures have been decorated with lines engraved into the shank. Several have pieces of copper and glass beads and pieces of ivory beads set into the shank, in some cases near the hook ends, in imitation of small fish. One lure has a serrated edge, a feature that helped in attaching a piece of fish skin bait or a weight. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/21: Fishing tackle was used for catching fish in rivers and streams during the open water season, and for jigging through holes chiseled through ice in winter and spring. Fishing tackle in the MacFarlane Collection includes fishing rods (iqaluksiun) with lines (ipiutaq) made from baleen, and bone and antler lures (niksik) with iron hooks. Less commonly, fishhooks were made from wood.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 8
place: label: Place
content: Northwest Territories, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit, Inuvialuk (Inuvialuit)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00090
label: USNM Number
content: E1652-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fish Hook