Stone Sinker
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: OVAL SHAPED STONE (REEF ROCK) WITH A LONGITUDINAL GROOVE CARVED INTO ONE SIDE. THE OTHER SIDE IS FLAT. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. PUBLICATION: FOR A SIMILAR PIECE SEE "ARTS & CRAFTS OF HAWAII," BUCK, P. 342. NOTE ON OLD CATALOGUE CARD STATES THAT THIS CANNOT BE A PART OF A SQUID LURE (AS IDENTIFIED BY SOMEONE) SINCE IT IS FLAT AND THEREFORE MUST BE AS PEALE DESCRIBED IT AS A SINKER FOR A FISHING LINE. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. PIILANI, MINNIE AND WILLIAM KAAWALOA, 1985, IDENTIFY AS: "A POHAKU PALU, WHICH IS A BAIT SINKER OR FISHING SINKER. WHEN THE HAWAIIANS WOULD GO DEEP SEA FISHING THEY WOULD TAKE ALONG SEVERAL OF THESE SINKERS TO TIE TO THEIR LINES. ... [IT] WAS USED TO SINK THEIR BAIT BAG (SACK). ... [IT] WAS NOT USED AS A SQUID LURE."
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PEALE CATALOG CALLS THIS "SINKER FOR FISHING LINE" BUT IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE SINKER OF A SQUID LURE. NOT A SINKER FOR SQUID LURE BECAUSE BOTTOM SURFACE FLAT - BUCK-ARTS & CRAFTS OF HAWAII P.342 STATES THAT SINKERS WITH LONGITUDINAL GROOVES PROBABLY USED FOR FISHING LINES. (M.C. 4/14/67)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hawaiian (Kanaka ʻŌiwi, Kanaka Maoli)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3542-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sinker
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 9 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 6.5 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 4.5 cm