Fish Hook
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Jun 1913
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mr. Frank E. Gist
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Shank of bone. Barb a spindle of bone sharpened and set at an angle at the end. Shank lashed with cord, covered with gum. The line is secured to the shank by means of lashing of small cord and gum."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 154, top, p. 174 in "Studying the Mission Indians of California and the Taos of New Mexico" by John Peabody Harrington, in Explorations and Field-Work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1928. Identified there as two-piece fish hook from the lower Klamath River, California, collected by Mr. Frank E. Gist. On p. 175 Harrington notes that Gist was from Weitchpec. See p. 165, footnote 70 in Harrington, J. Peabody. (1932). Tobacco among the Karuk Indians of California. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off.. (BAE Bulletin 94). Harrington notes of F. E. Gist that that "Mr. Gist made his home at Weitspec [Weitchpec]. He kept the store at Soames [Somes] Bar for several months at one time. He is remembered by the Indians to have bought pipes at Katimin. The pipes in his collection may be Karuk, Yuruk [Yurok], or Hupa." F. (Frank) E. Gist is presumably the same man as the Frank Gist discussed on p. 177 and p. 236 of Cadge, Catie A. Paradigms of collecting from ethnography to documenting the individual artists: Grace Nicholson and the art history of Native Northwestern California basketry during the Arts and Crafts period, 1880 - 1930. PhD diss., University of Victoria (Canada), 2000, where he is identified as a Yurok man who was a purchasing agent for dealer A. Brizard Company and later a rival of dealer Grace Nicholson.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Klamath River, Lower, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Klamath (?)
label: Culture
content: Klamath River Indians (?)
label: Culture
content: Yurok (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 055608
label: USNM Number
content: E278488-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fish Hook