Fish 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 COMPOSITE HOOK MADE WITH A SHANK OF WHALE BONE WHICH IS BACKED BY A PLATE OF PEARL SHELL WITH A TORTOISE SHELL HOOK. IT IS ATTACHED TO A BRAIDED WHITE VEGETABLE FIBER LINE WHICH IS TIED TO A HEAVIER BRAIDED BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER LINE, WHICH HAS BEEN UNCOILED AND TIED WITH STRING PRESUMABLY FOR EXHIBITION PURPOSES. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. THIS HOOK ALONG WITH FIVE OTHERS WERE ERRONEOUSLY IDENTIFIED BY TITIAN PEALE AS TAHITIAN, THEY WERE CORRECTLY IDENTIFIED BY SAUL RIESENBERG IN 1960. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ORIG. CATALOGED AS KINGSMILL, IS TAHITI IN PEALE CATALOG, BUT NOW IDENTIFIED AS TONGA. SHR. 3/10/61."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Jan 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tonga, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tongan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3683-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fish Hook
physicalDescription: label: Length - Line
content: 42 cm
label: Length - Hook
content: 13 cm
label: Width - Line
content: 23.5 cm
label: Unknown - Hook
content: 5 cm