Fish Hook
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: LARGE COMPOSITE HOOK MADE WITH A SHANK OF WHALE BONE WHICH IS BACKED BY A PLATE OF PEARL SHELL WITH A TORTOISE SHELL HOOK. IT IS ATTACHED TO A COCONUT FIBER LINE WHICH HAS BEEN RUN THROUGH A TUBE MADE FROM A CRUSTACEAN JOINT. THIS HOOK ALONG WITH FIVE OTHERS WERE ERRONEOUSLY IDENTIFIED BY TITIAN PEALE AS TAHITIAN, THEY WERE CORRECTLY IDENTIFIED BY SAUL RIESENBERG IN 1960. THIS OBJECT WAS ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE PACIFIC HALL, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1989 [exhibit dismantled in 2004].
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SHANK OF WHALE IVORY BACKED BY PLATE OF PEARL SHELL, HOOK OF TURTLE SHELL. ATTACHED TO HANK OF BRAIDED LINE, AND FIRST PART OF LINE, JUST PAST SNOOD, HAS BEEN RUN THROUGH A TUBE WHICH IS PROBABLY A CRUSTACEAN JOINT. IDENTIFIED AS TONGA (S.H. RIESENBERG, 12/39/60). PEALE CATALOG OF U.S. EX. EX. SPECIMENS LISTS THIS HOOK AS TAHITIAN, BUT HE SEEMS TO HAVE MIXED IT (AND NOS. 3639-3642, WHICH ARE SIMILAR) WITH A SET OF TAHITIAN ONES WHICH HE CALLS FIJIAN (2842-2846, ORIG. NOS. 1914-1919)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jun 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tonga, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tongan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3677-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fish Hook
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 12.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 6 cm