Pearl Fish-Hook
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Dec 1878
name: label: Donor Name
content: Rev. Horace J. Taylor
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "UNABLE TO FIND A SPECIMEN WITH THIS NUMBER MARCH 13, 1961. THIS NUMBER TENTATIVELY PLACED ON A BONITO HOOK FRAGMENT WHICH LOOKS GILBERTESE. THE HOOK HAS A CALCITE SHANK, THE UPPER PART OF WHICH IS MISSING, AND A BONE POINT. SEE ATTACHED CARD." FROM CARD: 34,375. (ATTACHED CARD). UPPER END OF SHANK MISSING. SHANK IS MADE OF WHITE CALCITE, MUCH WHITER THAN THE STALACTITE SHANKS ON OCEAN ISLAND AND GILBERT ISLAND HOOKS IN THE COLLECTIONS ALSO BACK OF SHANK IS FLATTENED WHEREAS THE OTHERS ARE ROUNDED, BUT DR. H. REHDER SAYS IT IS NOT FROM A MOLLUSK. HOOK IS BONE AND RESEMBLES THOSE OF OUR OTHER OCEAN AND GILBERT SPECIMENS AND THOSE IN BEASLEY (PLATES CXLII AND CXLIII), AND LASHING IS ALSO SIMILAR (THOUGH SOME PITCH-LIKE SUBSTANCE HAS BEEN ADDED TO IT). WHAT REMAINS OF HACKLE SEEMS TO BE HUMAN HAIR, WHEREAS OUR OTHER SPECIMENS AND THOSE IN PLATE CXLIII OF BEASLEY HAVE HIBISCUS BAST HACKLES, BUT IN PLATE CXLII THE HACKLES ARE OF HUMAN HAIR. IDENTIFIED TENTATIVELY AS GILBERTESE BY S.H.R. 3/8/61."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Feb 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kiribati Islands, Kiribati, Micronesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 007081
label: USNM Number
content: E34375-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fishhook