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Object Number 88-51-10/50495
Display Title Fish hook
Descriptions
Inventory Description Fishhook, carved bone point, lashed to wood shaft with reed
Classification
  • Fishhook
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Makah
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Washington
Additional Geographic Terms Neeah Bay
Dimensions Overall: 11.7 x 3.7 x 1.1 cm (4 5/8 x 1 7/16 x 7/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 88-51-10/50495
Provenance
Collector James G. Swan (1884)
Intermediary Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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