Squid Hook "Leho-lu-he'e" or "Leho he'e"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Dec 1909
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Nathaniel B. Emerson
label: Donor Name
content: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
notes: label: Notes
content: Identified as Leho-lu-he'e p. 62, # 45, in Smithsonian Institution. 1909. The exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution and United States National Museum at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 1909. Washington D.C.: Press of Judd & Detweiler, Inc. See also E257828.
label: Notes
content: Formerly on exhibit in NMNH Exhibit Hall 8, Case 49 from 1962 - 1997. Text of exhibit label: "Octopus Lure, Hawaii. Polynesian tradition ascribes hatred by the octopus for the rat, because of an incident in which the rat insulted the octopus which had saved his life. These baitless lures, said to resemble the rat in the water, are seized by octopuses, which are then drawn from their lairs." See also https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/35520511/ and https://ocean.si.edu/human-connections/hawaiian-lure .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 May 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Polynesian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 050958
label: USNM Number
content: E257827-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Octopus Hook