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Wooden fish hook
Object Number 95-20-70/48439
Display Title Wooden fish hook
Descriptions
Inventory Description Hook, carved wooden hook, J-shaped, wood tapers at each end, carved bone barb at one end, barb pointed and tapered, barb attached with fiber, fiber remnants at other end
Classification
  • Fishhook
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hawaiian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / United States / Hawaii
Materials Wood , Bone , Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 25.2 × 11.7 × 2.6 cm (9 15/16 × 4 5/8 × 1 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 48439
Provenance
Donor American Antiquarian Society (1895)

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