Stone Sinker And Fish Hook
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: BASALT SINKER WHICH IS UNGROOVED, HAS COCONUT FIBER CORD WRAPPED SEVERAL TIMES AROUND THE CENTER WITH A LENGTH OF LINE ATTACHED TO A SHELL HOOK, WHITE ON ONE SIDEAND BLACK ON THE OTHER. A MODERN LABEL READS, "BLACK LIPPED OCEAN PEARL [SHELL] PINCTODA MARGERATIFERA". HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. EXAMINED AND SAMPLED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, JUNE 1941.
label: Notes
content: Peale # 1173. Peale catalogue identifies # 1172 and 1173 as "Sinkers, and pearl hooks, used for deep water fishing by the Samoans."
label: Notes
content: From second card: "Simple fish hook, of pearl shell, white one side, black on other. Sennit cord snood wrapped on with soft brownish fibres, tied at other end to basalt sinker, ungrooved, 2.5" x 2 " roughly. (This information give by K. P. Emory, Bishop Museum, 6/24/41)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: American Samoa (not certain), Samoa (not certain) / United States (not certain), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Samoan
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3400-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sinker / Fish Hook
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Stone
content: 7.5 cm
label: Unknown - Hook
content: 2.3 cm
label: Unknown - Hook
content: 3.5 cm