Halibut Hook And Line
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Sep 1939
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Francis B. Sayre
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Francis B. Sayre
notes: label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
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=703 , retrieved 5-17-2012: Halibut hook, Haida. Halibut surpassed every other food in the traditional diet. Individual matrilineages claimed ownership of undersea "banks" (plateaus) where the fish congregate. Early spring halibut fishing brought some of the first fresh food of the year, and people worked to lay in a large supply, the men pulling the fish from the bottom on wooden hooks and the women slicing them into fillets and drying them for storage. On summer trading voyages, the Haida exchanged dried halibut and seaweed to the Tsimshian for eulachon grease and berries. On this halibut hook, a predatory creature is shown capturing a seal.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Revillagigedo Island / Ketchikan, Alexander Archipelago, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Haida
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 153865
label: USNM Number
content: E379805-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fish Hook
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 25 cm