Fishing Implement
Fishhooks
2003-43-216B
From: Siberia | Amur River
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 2003-43-216B |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Siberia | Amur River |
| Culture Area | Siberia |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Copper | Metal | Plant Fiber |
| Technique | Carved | Forged | Woven |
| Description | Small crooked fishing stick of carved wood (A); a long line of vegetable fiber attached to narrower notched end of stick; excess line wrapped between notched end of the crook; an oversized copper plate to which a series of four double iron hooks is attached; many metal lures wrapped in cloth (B) attached to the end of the line. |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1899.1.216 - Other Number |
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