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: SMALL COILS OF BRAIDED AND TWISTED COCNUT FIBER CORD WHICH ARE WRAPPED IN SKEINS WITH ATTACHED COMPOSITE HOOKS MADE OF SHELL SHANKS WITH TURTLE SHELL HOOKS TIED ON BY VERY FINE VEGETABLE FIBER CORD. BOTH HOOKS ARE BROKEN, ALTHOUGH ONE HAS A REMNANT OF THE TURTLE SHELL HOOK.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ORIGINALLY CATALOGED AS ONE SPECIMEN, "FISH LINE AND SINKER." FROM FIJI. IDENTIFIED [AS SAMOA] BY SHR [SAUL H RIESENBERG], 3/6/61."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 1095 - 1170 as "Fishing lines used by the Samoans in trolling. The line is made of cocoa-nut sinnet [sennit], the artificial bait, mother of pearl or sea shell, and the hook tortoise shell."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
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: E9218-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fish Hook / Fish Line
physicalDescription: label: Length - Skeins
content: 17 cm
label: Unknown - Skeins
content: 20 cm
label: Unknown - Hooks
content: 5.5 cm
label: Unknown - Hooks
content: 7 cm