Stone Sinker And 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: GROOVED BASALT SINKER, ROUND WITH GROOVE DOWN CENTER, AND TWISTED AND BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER CORD TIED AROUND WITH THREE STRANDS HANGING FREE. THE HOOK IS MADE OF PEARL SHELL WITH PART OF THE COCONUT FIBER LINE LASHED AROUND THE TOP HAS BEEN SEPARATED. PUBLICATION: ILLUS. IN CHARLES RAU, "PREHISTORIC FISHING IN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA," SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE 509, FIG. 213, P. 135. THE SINKER AND HOOK HAD TEMPORARY NUMBERS 5551 & 5552 RESPECTIVELY, AND WERE IDENTIFIED BY AN EXACT DRAWING PUBLISHED IN ABOVE PUBLICATION.
label: Notes
content: Peale # 1172. Peale catalogue identifies # 1172 and 1173 as "Sinkers, and pearl hooks, used for deep water fishing by the Samoans."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: American Samoa (not certain), Samoa (not certain) / United States (not certain), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Samoan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3399-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sinker / Fish Hook
physicalDescription: label: Unknown - Stone
content: 5.5 cm
label: Unknown - Stone
content: 6.5 cm
label: Unknown - Hook
content: 4.5 cm
label: Unknown - Hook
content: 2.8 cm