Halibut Hook Item Number: E274572-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.From card: "Fish Hook. Bent wood with iron barb lashed with spruce root."Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=676 , retrieved 1-5-2012: Halibut hook, Tlingit This is a southern style of halibut hook, used occasionally by the Tlingit but more commonly by the Haida and other Northwest Coast peoples as far south as Washington. It was made from a single piece of bent wood, with an iron barb and spruce root lashings.
Item History
- Made in Alaska, USA
- Collected by Gov John G. Brady in Alaska, USA between 1878 and 1909
- Received from Mrs. Edward H. Harriman on June 7, 1912
What
- Name
- Halibut Hook
- Identification Number
- E274572-0
- Type of Item
- fish hook
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit
- Field Collector
- Gov John G. Brady
- Received from
- Mrs. Edward H. Harriman
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Alaska, USA
When
- Collection Date
- between 1878 and 1909
- Acquisition Date
- on June 7, 1912
Other
- Accession Number
- 054171