fish-hook

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Object Type
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
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
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.)

Free entry