Tomcod Hook
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1880
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. National Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1; PL. LXIX-2; P. 178; ALSO IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 60; PL. 26, NO. 8; P. 48."
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=578 , retrieved 7-17-2018: Fishhook. This combination sinker and multi-pronged hook is from Plover Bay, Siberia. It was used for catching tomcod and other small fish through winter ice or along its edge. Holes on the bottom are for attaching leaders with additional hooks.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plover Bay (Providence Bay), Siberia, Russia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 009536
label: USNM Number
content: E46264-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fish Hook
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 16 cm