Bonito 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: PEARL SHELL SHANK OF A FISH HOOK WHICH HAS AT ONE END A V-SHAPED PROTUBERANCE WHICH IS CARVED IN RELIEF AND INCISED, AND AT THE NARROWER END FOUR VERY SMALL CARVED PROTUBERANCES. THERE IS NO HOOK OR LINE. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. OLD CATALOGUE CARD IDENTIFIES THIS HOOK AS SOLOMON, PERHAPS COLLECTED IN FIJI. SAUL RIESENBERG 1961. THE SHANK HAS BEEN REPAIRED AT ONE END.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ORIGINALLY CATALOGED AS FIJI, AS IT APPEARS IN PEALE CATALOG, BUT IS A SOLOMONS TYPE. POSSIBLY COLLECTED IN FIJI. SHR. 3/6/61. THE LOWER PARTY OF THE SHANK IS BROKEN OFF AND THE HOOK ITSELF IS MISSING."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Solomon Islands, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Solomon Islanders
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2845-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hook
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 7.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 1.3 cm