Fishing Implement, Tom Cod Hook
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1879
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=556 , retrieved 10-26-2021; see web page for additional information: Fishhook, Yup'ik. During winter, tomcod and sculpin fish stay in deep water but as spring approaches they move in closer to shore. That is when people along the Bering Sea coast fish for them through holes in the ice, using hook and line. This traditional bone hook has four sharp prongs.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Askinuk (Hooper Bay), Near Cape Romanzof, Yukon & Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E37411-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fish Hook
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 14.5 cm