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Object Number
80-21-60/22432
Display Title
Fish hook for cuttle fish
Descriptions
Object Description
Fish hook for cuttle fish. Fish hook with radiating copper alloy (brass?) hooks at one end, attached to a lead weight with copper wire wrapping. The lead sinker is inserted into the hollow of an animal tooth and riveted in place with lead studs. There is a perforation at the end of the tooth point.
Inventory Description
Fishhook, metal end barbed and weighted with lead, ivory end perforated
Classification
- Fishhook
Department
Ethnographic
Date
ca.1880
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia
/
Japan
Dimensions
Overall: 10.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm (4 1/8 x 1 x 1 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
22.432; 22
Provenance
Collector
Prof. Edward Sylvester Morse
(1879 - 1880)
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