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 ANDTOP OF THE HOOK WITH COCONUT FIBER AND IS ATTACHED TO A LONG WIDE BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER LINE. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. PUBLICATION: ILLUSTRATED IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 60, PL. 26, NO. 1, P. 48, (LISTED AS FIJIAN, BUT ACTUALLY TONGAREVAN). LENT TO BISHOP MUSEUM 1978, RETURNED 1978. EXAMINED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, JUNE 1941.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3673-4. #3674 - ILLUS. IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 60; PL. 26, NO.1; P. 48, AS FIGIAN BUT IS ACTUALLY TONGAREVA." FROM CARD: "ORIG. CAT.: "FISH HOOKS MADE OF WOOD AND USED FOR CATCHING SHARKS BY THE NATIVES OF PENRHYN I." BARBLESS HOOK SHAPED FROM ONE PIECE OF WOOD; BRAIDED SENNIT CORD ATTACHED FOR LINE; TWISTED SENNIT CORD WRAPPING BEHIND POINT. LOANED TO BISHOP MUSEUM 1/23/78. (3674) RETURNED FROM BISHOP MUSEUM 2/15/78."
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: E3674-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hook
physicalDescription: label: Length - Hook
content: 23.5 cm
label: Length - Line
content: 109 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 10.5 cm