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fish-hook
Object Type
fish-hook
Museum number
Am,VAN.129.a
Description
Bentwood fish-hook made of wood with a bone barb bound to hook using spruce (?) root. Further binding is made from cherry (?) bark. The leader, attached using sinew, is made of plaited nettle fibre ,
Production ethnic group
Made by:
Namakizat
(?)
Made by:
Northwest Coast Peoples
Excavator/field collector
Field Collection by:
George Goodman Hewett
Findspot
Found/Acquired:
North America
Materials
wood
bone
(?)
bark
nettle fibre
(?)
spruce root
(?)
sinew
Technique
steamed
plaited
Dimensions
Length:
22.50 centimetres
Width:
9.50 centimetres
Curator's comments
From acquisition "Namakizat".
Bibliographic references
Gunther 1972 / Indian Life on the Northwest Coast of North America: As Seen by the Early Explorers and Fur Traders during the Last Decades of the Eighteenth Century
(app.1:88-98)
King 1994 / Vancouver's Ethnography: A preliminary description of five inventories from the voyage of 1791-95
Location
Not on display
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks
Acquisition date
1891
Acquisition notes
Collected on George Vancouver's voyage to Hawaii and the NW coast of North America 1791-1795.
Department
Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number
Am,VAN.129.a
Additional IDs
CDMS number:
Am1891C25.129a-b
(old CDMS no.)