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Object Number 67-10-70/249
Display Title Fish hook of wood & bone
Descriptions
Inventory Description Fishhook, carved wood crescent, barbed bone spike, fiber binding and cord
Classification
  • Fishhook
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1790
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / New Zealand
Dimensions Overall: 7.4 x 10.1 x 1.7 cm (2 15/16 x 4 x 11/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 249
Credit Line Gift of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1867
Provenance
Collector Capt. James Magee (1791-1793 - 1794)
Donor Massachusetts Historical Society (1867)

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