Shark Hook And Line
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 SHARK HOOK WHICH IS WRAPPED AT THE BASE AND TOP OF THE HOOK WITH BAST & COCONUT FIBER & IS ATTACHED TO A LONG WIDE BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER LINE. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG; WRITTEN ON HOOK "EX. EX. B[OX] 23, V[INCENNES] PENRHYN ISL." PUBLICATION: ILLUS. "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," VIOLA & MARGOLIS, 1985, P. 130. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXAMINED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, JUNE 1941.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SENNIT BRAID SNOOD, 3' LONG WRAPPED WITH PANDANUS-LEAF FIBRE, AS ALSO THE POINT. HEAVY REDDISH BROWN WOOD. (THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41, AND MR. EMORY TOOK SAMPLE OF SNOOD)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Penrhyn Atoll, Cook Islands, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tongarevan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3734-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hook
physicalDescription: label: Length - Hook
content: 33 cm
label: Unknown - Line
content: 93 cm
label: Width - Line
content: 13 cm