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: FOUR HOOKS AND LINES FOUND, THE OTHER FIVE WERE APPARENTLY EXCHANGED. SKEINS OF TWISTED & 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 A VERY FINE VEGETABLE FIBER CORD. ORIGINAL PEALE TAGS PRESENT, "1112", "1116", "1119", AND A REMNANT OF A PEALE ORIGINAL TAG, "[1]115" (THIS HOOK WAS LATER MISNUMBERED 1105 AND 4503 IN INK). IN 1867, TWENTY-FIVE "SETS" OF PACIFIC AND NORTH AMERICAN CURIOSITIES WERE EXCHANGED WITH UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS AND STATE CABINETS. EACH SET INCLUDED ONE SAMOAN FISH HOOK AND LINE; SOME OF THE MISSING HOOKS WERE MOST LIKELY THOSE. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXHIBITED SITES "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," 1987-90.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 4
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: E4504-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fish Hook / Fish Line
physicalDescription: label: Length - Peale # 1112 Line Coil
content: 18 cm
label: Width - Peale # 1112 Line Coil
content: 2.5 cm
label: Length - Peale # 1112 Hook Shank
content: 5.5 cm
label: Length - Peale # 1115 Line Coil
content: 16.5 cm
label: Length - Peale # 1115 Hook Shank
content: 5 cm
label: Length - Peale # 1116 Line Coil
content: 17.7 cm