Fishhook
2003-43-206
From: Siberia | Amur River
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 2003-43-206 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Siberia | Amur River |
| Culture Area | Siberia |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Iron | Lead | Leather | Twine |
| Technique | Forged | Tanned |
| Description | Large fish hook consisting of long conical sinker of lead into the bottom of which is embedded three barbed iron hooks; the top of the sinker is pierced with a single hole through which a wide leather strip is looped and joined above with a long string of vegetable fiber. |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1899.1.206 - Other Number | 180 (Civic Center, 1957) - Other Number |
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