Throwing Line & Sinker
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Collector
content: Stephen Powers
label: Donor Name
content: Stephen Powers
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1975. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 11, GREAT BASIN, FIG. 5A, PG. 442." Handbook caption identifies as "Throwing line, tiny hooks of sharpened rabbit bone in folded willow splints, bound and attached with native cordage to a fiber main line. The line, hooks baited with grubs, would be set in the shallows of a lake, one end anchored by a cane shaft on the beach, the other, by a stone sinker."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Mar 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Washoe County / Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Paiute
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004856
label: USNM Number
content: E19047-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fish Hook / Fish Line