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Object Number 25-5-10/98140
Display Title Child's fishing gear
Descriptions
Inventory Description Fishing tackle, carved bone leader, sinker and hook, sinew line
Classification
  • Tackle
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Yupik
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Materials Bone, Sinew
Dimensions Overall: 15.2 x 1.1 x 0.5 cm (6 x 7/16 x 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 98140
Provenance
Collector Charles Ashley Weare (01/01/1895-01/01/1900)
Donor John Weare (01/01/1925)

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