Halibut Hook
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Jun 1912
label: Collection Date
content: 1878 to 1909
name: label: Collector
content: Gov John G. Brady
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Edward H. Harriman
notes: label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: From card: "Fish Hook. Bent wood with iron barb lashed with spruce root."
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=676 , retrieved 1-5-2012: Halibut hook, Tlingit This is a southern style of halibut hook, used occasionally by the Tlingit but more commonly by the Haida and other Northwest Coast peoples as far south as Washington. It was made from a single piece of bent wood, with an iron barb and spruce root lashings.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 054171
label: USNM Number
content: E274572-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fish Hook
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 18.2 cm