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Object Number 95-20-70/48441

Display Title Fish hook

Descriptions

Inventory Description Fishhook, carved wood hook, bone barb attached with twisted fiber cordage

Classification

Fishhook

Department Ethnographic

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Oceania / New Zealand

Materials Bone, Wood, Fiber

Dimensions Overall: 16 x 7 x 2.5 cm (6 5/16 x 2 3/4 x 1 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 48441

Provenance

Donor American Antiquarian Society (1895)

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