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Fish hook for large fish
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Object Number 15-36-10/86462
Display Title Fish hook for large fish
Descriptions
Object Description Fish hook for large fish consisting of two pieces of deer's bone placed across each other and wrapped in the middle with sinew. Line of Indian hemp twine.
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1915
Culture
  • Thompson
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / British Columbia
Materials Bone Sinew
Credit Line Museum Purchase, Huntington Frothingham Wolcott Fund, 1915
Provenance
Collector James A. Teit (1915)
Seller James A. Teit

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