Tortoise Shell Fish Hook
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. James Alden
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: AMBER-COLORED TORTOISE SHELL "TANGORO" FISH HOOK, WITH A BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER SNOOD WHICH IS WRAPPED AROUNDTHE TOP OF THE HOOK. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. PUBLICATION: ILLUS. IN CHARLES RAU, "PREHISTORIC FISHING IN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA," S.I. CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE 509, FIG. 214, P. 136; ALSO PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 60; PL. 26, NO. 2, P. 48; ALSO KENNETH P. EMORY, "MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE TUAMOTU ARCHIPELAGO," P. 198-99, ILLUS. 163A. ALSO VIOLA, MARGOLIS, "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," S.I. PRESS, 1985, P. 130. ACCORDING TO KENNETH P. EMORY THIS HOOK IS MADE FROM THE "UNA" OR ENTROPLASTRON OF THE TURTLE SHELL, AND THIS PARTICLUAR SPECIMEN IS UNUSUALLY WIDE. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXHIBITED SITES "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," 1987-89.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN CHAS. RAU, PREHISTORIC FISHING IN EUROPE AND NO. AMERICA, SMITHSONIAN CONTRIB'S TO KNOWLEDGE 509, FIG. 214, P. 136. ALSO IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 60: PL. 26, NO. 2; P. 48. LOAN: SITES JAN 9 1987. MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Jan 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Pukapuka Atoll / Pukarua Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago, France, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tuamotuan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3676-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fish Hook
physicalDescription: label: Length - Hook
content: 7.5 cm
label: Width - Hook
content: 4.5 cm
label: Length - Cord
content: 34 cm