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Object Number
67-10-10/250
Display Title
Fish hooks
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Fishhooks, carved wood shaft, curved, lashed to bone point with reed
Classification
- Fishhook
Department
Ethnographic
Date
before 1790
Culture
- Northwest Coast
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
Additional Geographic Terms
Northwest Coast
Materials
Sinew Reed Bone Split root Spruce root
Dimensions
Overall: 17.8 x 8.9 x 1.3 cm (7 x 3 1/2 x 1/2 in.)
Overall: 15.3 x 8.3 x 1.7 cm (6 x 3 1/4 x 11/16 in.)
Overall: 8.5 x 3.9 cm (3 3/8 x 1 9/16 in.)
Quantity
7
Label on object
67-10-10/250 & 250 & 250 11\MHS
Credit Line
Gift of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1867
Provenance
Collector
Capt. James Magee
(ca. 1790)
Donor
Massachusetts Historical Society
(1867)
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