Fishing Line
Hook
2003-43-219
From: Siberia | Amur River
Curatorial Section: American
Object Number | 2003-43-219 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Siberia | Amur River |
Culture Area | Siberia |
Section | American |
Materials | Wood | Bone | Bark | Vegetable Fiber |
Technique | Lashed |
Description | Fish hook consisting of a piece of curved bone, possibly a tooth lashed with vegetable fiber between two pieces of wood; bark lashings secure the top of the wooden pieces to a vegetable fiber line. |
Length | 127 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1899.1.219 - Other Number |
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