Shell Fish Hooks
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: COMPOSITE HOOK WITH A PEARL SHELL SHANK, A BARBLESS SHELL HOOK ATTACHED BY MEANS OF TWISTED COCONUT FIBER CORD AND ATTACHED TO A COCONUT FIBER LINE. ACCORDING TO A NOTE ON THE OLD CATALOGUE CARD ONE THESE HOOKS WAS EXCHANGED WITH WELLS COLLEGE, AURORA, N.Y. A SECOND NOTE STATES THAT ONE OF THE HOOKS WAS ASSIGNED THE CAT. NO. 3797 IN 1961. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. LENT TO THE BISHOP MUSEUM 1978, RETURNED 1978.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ONLY 3 OF THESE BORE CAT. NO. 3797, ONE BEING MARKED 3796, BUT THIS NUMBER CONFLICTS WITH ANOTHER SERIES, SO CHANGED TO 3797. SHR/3/10/61. SHANK OF SHELL WITH BARBLESS SHELL HOOK ATTACHED W/ TWISTED SENNIT CORD. 4/15/75 AT LEAST ONE OF THESE IS IN THE WELLS COLLEGE, AURORA, N.Y. MUSEUM.-R. ELDER. INVENTORIED 1975. LOANED TO BISHOP MUSEUM 1/23/78. RETURNED FROM BISHOP MUSEUM 2/15/78."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Feb 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Penrhyn Atoll, Cook Islands, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tongarevan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3797-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fish Hook
physicalDescription: label: Length - Hook
content: 10 cm
label: Length - Hook
content: 11.2 cm
label: Length - One Line
content: 103 cm
label: Width - , Hooks
content: 2 cm
label: Width - , Hooks
content: 3 cm