Fishhook
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Jan 1867
name: label: Donor Name
content: John Varden
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "TO A RIGHT ANGLE CURVE OF WOOD AS A SHANK IS BOUND A BONE TANG AT RIGHT ANGLES, THIS TANG IS SERRATED AT ONE PLACE ON THE OUTSIDE AND TWO SEPARATED PLACES ON THE INSIDE. TO THE BACK END OF THE SHANK IS FASTENED A HEAVY BRAIDED CORD 29 1/2" L., WHICH IS ADDITIONALLY WRAPPED CIRCULARLY FOR 14 1/2" FROM THE END OF THE HOOK. *THIS WAS A PART OF A GROUP OF NUMBERS ALL MARKED POLYNESIA, BUT THIS ONE IS IDENTIFIED AS N. ZEAL. FROM: HARRY G. BEASLEY: PACIFIC ISL. RECORDS, SEELEY, LONDON, 1928. P. 11, AND PL. 19, FIG.II.-S.R.RIESENEBERG-1961."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Oct 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: New Zealand (Aotearoa), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 68A00002
label: USNM Number
content: E5464-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fishhook
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 9 cm