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Object Number 67-10-70/248
Display Title Fish hook
Descriptions
Inventory Description Fishhook, carved barbed bone, wood and vegetable fiber binding, knotted cord
Classification
  • Fishhook
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1790
Culture
  • Hawaiian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / United States / Hawaii
Additional Geographic Terms Sandwich Islands
Dimensions Overall: 18 x 3 x 1.1 cm (7 1/16 x 1 3/16 x 7/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 248
Provenance
Collector Capt. James Magee (1791-1793 - 1794)
Donor Massachusetts Historical Society (1867)

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