Fishing Hook And Line
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1840
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 A VERY FINE VEGETABLE FIBER CORD. TWO OF THESE HOOKS ARE IN S.I. STORAGE, THE THIRD WAS MOST LIKELY EXCHANGED AS PART OF AN 1867 "SET" OF PACIFIC AND NORTHAMERICAN CUROSITIES THAT WERE EXCHANGED WITH UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS AND STATE CABINETS. EACH SET INCLUDED ONE SAMOAN HOOK AND LINE.
label: Notes
content: From card: "7/1961 only two found."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Feb 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
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: E1753-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fish Hook/Fish Line
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 18 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 18.5 cm
label: Unknown - Hooks
content: 4.9 cm
label: Unknown - Hooks
content: 5.2 cm