Halibut Hook

Item number E274572-0 from the National Museum of Natural History.

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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.