Cactus Fish-Hooks
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Edward Palmer
notes: label: Notes
content: Objects are still attached to old U.S. National Museum exhibit board. See also NMNH Department of Botany Edward Palmer collections web exhibit page on this artifact: http://botany.si.edu/colls/palmer/narrative_page.cfm?Narr=9&locality= . Object is identified there as cactus spines of of Ferocactus wislezeni, commonly known as the Biznaga cactus, used by the Mohave as fish hooks. It is noted there that fiber material like E24182 was used for the fishing lines.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Mohave (Mojave)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 005070
label: USNM Number
content: E24183-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fish Hook