Fishing Hooks And Lines
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: SKEINS OF TWISTED AND BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER CORD WHICH IS TIED TO A COMPOSITE HOOK MADE OF A SHELL SHANK WITH A TORTOISE SHELL HOOK WHICH IS TIED TO THE SHANK WITH VERY FINE VEGETABLE FIBER CORD. THREE OF THE HOOKS HAVE ORIGINAL PEALE TAGS, 1150, 1152, 1156; ALSO WRITTEN ON #1150, "BOX 61 EX. EX. V. [V presumably for Vincennes, a ship of the expedition]". # 1150 HAD BEEN GIVEN A TEMPORARY NUMBER T12196, BUT THE ORIGINAL LEDGER IDENTIFIED PEALE #1150 AS BELONGING WITH CATALOGUE #4508. AN OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL READS, "FISHING-LINES - MADE OF SENNIT, WITH LEADERS OF TWINE. THE SHANK OF THE HOOK OF SHELL, FASTENED TO THE TORTOISE SHELL FLUKE BY VERY SMALL CORD PASSED THROUGH PERFORATIONS IN THE SHANK AND IN THE FLUKE. SAMOAN ISLANDS, 1839. COLLECTED BY THE WILKES EXPLORING EXPEDITION." EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "4508. FISHING-LINES.-MADE OF SENNIT, WITH LEADERS OF TWINE. THE SHANK OF THE HOOK, OF SHELL, FASTENED TO THE TORTOISE-SHELL FLUKE BY VERY SMALL CORD PASSED THROUGH PERFORATIONS IN THE SHANK AND IN THE FLUKE. SAMOAN ISLANDS, 1839. 4,508. COLLECTED BY THE WILKES EXPLORING EXPEDITION."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 5
place: label: Place
content: American Samoa (not certain), Samoa (not certain) / United States (not certain), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Samoan
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E4508-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fish Hook / Fish Line
physicalDescription: label: Length - Peale # 1150 (# 1 Of 5) Line Coil
content: 17.5 cm
label: Width - Peale # 1150 (# 1 Of 5) Line Coil
content: 2.5 cm
label: Length - Peale # 1150 (# 1 Of 5) Hook Shank
content: 6.2 cm
label: Width - Peale # 1150 (# 1 Of 5) Hook Shank
content: 1.2 cm
label: Length - Peale # 1150 (# 1 Of 5) Hook Barb
content: 2.2 cm
label: Width - Peale # 1150 (# 1 Of 5) Hook Barb
content: 2 mm
label: Length - Peale # 1152 (# 2 Of 5) Line Coil
content: 18.5 cm
label: Width - Peale # 1152 (# 2 Of 5) Line Coil
content: 3.5 cm
label: Length - Peale # 1152 (# 2 Of 5) Hook Shank
content: 6.2 cm
label: Length - Peale # 1156 (# 3 Of 5) Hook Barb
content: 1.5 cm
label: Length - # 4 Of 5 Line Coil
content: 18.5 cm
label: Width - # 4 Of 5 Line Coil
content: 3 cm
label: Length - # 4 Of 5 Hook Shank
content: 5.5 cm
label: Width - # 4 Of 5 Hook Shank
content: 0.9 cm
label: Length - # 4 Of 5 Hook Barb
content: 5.5 cm
label: Width - # 4 Of 5 Hook Barb
content: 1.5 cm
label: Length - # 5 Of 5 Leader
content: 13 cm
label: Length - # 5 Of 5 Hook Shank
content: 5.2 cm
label: Width - # 5 Of 5 Hook Shank
content: 0.9 cm
label: Length - # 5 Of 5 Hook Barb
content: 2.2 cm
label: Width - # 5 Of 5 Hook Barb
content: 1.2 cm