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Fish pole, line, hook, reel, and sinker.
Fish pole, line, hook, reel, and sinker.
Object Number 15-36-10/86466
Display Title Fish pole, line, hook, reel, and sinker.
Descriptions
Object Description Fish pole, line, hook, reel, and sinker. Line of hemp twine with hook of deer bone. The baited line is twisted loosely a few turns around the small end of the stick and thrown outward by it as far as possible and then hauled in. No rods are used in this kind of fishing but in common fishing or angling rods and short lines are used. The line is wound on a fishing line reel of cedar wood.
Inventory Description Fish pole
Classification
  • Fishing and trapping
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1915
Culture
  • Thompson
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / British Columbia
Materials Wood, Stone, Bone, Fiber
Dimensions Sinker - ~ 5.5. x 3 cm; reel with line: 15.5 x 4.5 cm; stick 83 x 2.5 cm
Quantity 1
Credit Line Museum Purchase, Huntington Frothingham Wolcott Fund, 1915
Provenance
Collector James A. Teit (1915)
Seller James A. Teit

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