Object Record
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Metadata
Object ID |
54.236 |
Object Name |
Fish hook |
Culture |
Inupiaq?/Yup'ik? |
Material |
Ivory/Iron/Sinew |
Description |
Fish hook with ivory body and four pointed metal curved spikes. Thin, pendulous ivory body with a whole in one end through which a sinew thread is tied. Wider, rounded end has two iron spikes driven through the body with the pointed ends bent to form four sharp hooks. Iron are rusted. |
Dimensions |
W-2.8 L-7 cm |
Found |
North America; United States; Alaska; Golovin Bay; Chinik Area |
Provenance |
Boos Collection. Originally collected in Golovin, Alaska in the 1890s by Mrs Dora Bunker (nee Melsing), wife of Alaskan miner George Bunker. Donated to Stanford by Mrs George Henry Boos in the early 1950s. Henry Boos was born in Alaska in 1899 but the relationship between the two families is unclear. |
Collector |
Bunker, Mrs. George |
Collection |
Anthropology; North America; Arctic/Subarctic |
Search Terms |
Eskimo Inuit Inupiat Alaska Yupik |