Fish Hook
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Jan 1867
name: label: Donor Name
content: John Varden
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "A 13" LONG REDDISH STAINED STICK OF WOOD, WITH SNOOD END (2 1/2") FLANGED AND THEN TAPERING TO POINT. NEAR DISTAL END IS LASHED A 2 1/2" LONG BONE POINT, AT VERY ACUTE ENGLE WITH SHANK, LASHING COMMENCING 2 1/4" FROM DISTAL END AND EXTENDING FOR 1 1/2". DISTAL END FOR 1 1/2" IS ALSO WRAPPED WITH THE SAME FINE COTTON TWINE. ORIGINALLY CATALOGED AS "POLYNESIAN" BUT NOW IDENTIFIED AS BISMARCKS, PROBABLY NEW BRITAIN OR NEW IRELAND. SHR. 3/10/61."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Marquesas Islands, France, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 68A00002
label: USNM Number
content: E5461-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fishhook