Wooden Ruvettus Fish-Hook
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1857
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "COLLECTED BEFORE 1857. ORIGINALLY CATALOGED AS FROM TAHITI, BUT ACCORDING TO GUDGER (AMER, MUS. ANTHRO. PAPERS, 28, PART 3, FIGS. 65 AND 66 C) IS FROM BOWDITCH (FAKAOFO)."
label: Notes
content: Catalogue card lists donor as War Department but Jane Walsh has attributed it to the U.S. Exploring Expedition.
label: Notes
content: Carved wooden hook wrapped with fiber and braided twine at both ends. Opposite hook end is a fiber braided rope ending in a knot.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tokelau Islands, New Zealand (Aotearoa), 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: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2715-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fishhook
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Hook
content: 18 cm
label: Width - Hook
content: 2 cm
label: Length - Rope
content: 67 cm