Bone Fish-Hook And Line Of Wild Hemp
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Donor Name
content: Leroy S. Dyar
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "LUTE-CUS." Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 12, Plateau, fig. 3b, p. 623. Identified in Handbook caption as a gorge.
label: Notes
content: See p. 86 in Feest, Christian. “The Klamath Collection of Alphonse Forrer in Vienna.” Archiv Weltmuseum Wien, 2024. https://www.academia.edu/142944986/The_Klamath_Collection_of_Alphonse_Forrer_in_Vienna. Feest identifies E24098 as a gorge rather than a fishhook. Feest says about gorges "Gorges are technically not fishhooks because they are not hooked and are supposed to be swallowed by the prey instead of piercing its mouth. They consist of a stick pointed at both ends and attached to a line in its center. The stick is laid parallel to the line and covered with a bait; upon being swallowed the stick turns 90 degrees and gets stuck in the prey's gullet. ... On Dyar's example the gorge is a single double-pointed piece of bone ... and the vegetable fiber line is attached directly to it ... ."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Jul 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Oregon, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Klamath
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 005319
label: USNM Number
content: E24098-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fish Hook / Line