Fishhook
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1879
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "37945-7. EX. E. LOVETT, DEC. 9, 1884. #33946-ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1; PL. LXVIII-10; P. 176."
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=347 , retrieved 11-23-2021; see web page for additional information: Fish Hook, Yup'ik. Caught in nets and traps or taken by hook and line, Arctic whitefish are an important subsistence food, often eaten dried or frozen. Their oil is a delicacy. Sheefish are the largest members of the whitefish family, weighing as much as 60 pounds. This lure for catching them is made of caribou antler, with a metal hook.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Paimut, Yukon River, Lower, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E37946-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fish Hook
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 13 cm