Fish Hook
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: ANIMAL BONE, V-SHAPED HOOKS WITH TWO HOLES DRILLED AT THE TOP AND BOTTOM OF THE HOOK. A TWISTED LINE OF GREYISH FIBER IS LASHED THROUGH THE HOLES, AND ATTACHED TO A HEAVIER BRAIDED LINE OF THE SAME MATERIAL. THERE ARE ORIGINAL PEALE TAGS ON EACH SPECIMEN. PUBLICATION: THE HOOK WITH ORIGINAL #703 IS ILLUSTRATED IN KENNETH P. EMORY, "MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE TUAMOTU ARCHIPELAGO," P. 203, FIG. 169. THE HOOK WITH ORIGINAL #703 (E3518-0) WAS EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. THE HOOK WITH ORIGINAL #702 (E3518-1) WAS ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE PACIFIC HALL, N.M.N.H., 1989 [that exhibit dismantled in 2004].
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THESE HOOKS MORE LIKE PONAPE-K. EMORY. BEASLEY (P1. LXXV) ILLUSTRATES A NEARLY IDENTICAL PEABODY, SALEM HOOK FROM MARQUESAS. SHR. IN PEALE CATALOG LISTED AS TUAMOTUS."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: 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: E3518-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fish Hook
physicalDescription: label: Unknown - Cord, Hook On Exhibit
content: 29 cm
label: Length - Hook In Storage
content: 11.5 cm
label: Length - Hook On Exhibit
content: 11 cm
label: Width - Hook On Exhibit
content: 4.5 cm
label: Width - Hook In Storage
content: 5 cm
label: Unknown - Cord, Hook In Storage
content: 98 cm