Fish Hooks
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: THREE PEARL SHELL "TANGORO" FISH HOOKS (ORIGINALLY THERE WERE FOUR HOOKS) WITH COCONUT FIBER SNOOD WHICH IS LASHED AROUND THE TOP OF THE HOOK. TWO OF THE HOOKS HAVE PROJECTING KNOBS, WHICH ARE PARTIALLY HIDDEN UNDER THE COCONUT FIBER WRAPPING. ONE HOOK HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG #696. PUBLICATION: ONE HOOK IS ILLUSTRATED IN KENNETH P. EMORY, "MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE TUAMOTU ARCHIPELAGO, 1975, P. 199, FIG. 162F. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. FIELD NUMBERS: 696, 697, 699, 700.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "LARGE PEARL."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Jan 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Napuka Island, Disappointment Islands, Tuamotu Archipelago, France, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tuamotuan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3681-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hook
physicalDescription: label: Unknown - A Hook
content: 6 cm
label: Unknown - A Hook
content: 4 cm
label: Length - A Cord
content: 10.5 cm
label: Unknown - B Hoop
content: 6 cm
label: Unknown - B Hoop
content: 5 cm
label: Length - B Cord
content: 12 cm
label: Unknown - B Hook
content: 7.5 cm
label: Unknown - C Hook
content: 4.8 cm
label: Length - C Cord
content: 9.4 cm