Large Carved Wooden Haddock Hook Item Number: E381718-0 from the National Museum of Natural History

Notes

From card: "Collected by Capt. H. M. Broadbent on one of the first cruises of the Coast Guard cutter "Bear" about 1895."Catalogue identification may be in error? This object appears to be a halibut hook. Provenience note: Howard Miles Broadbent served on the U.S.S. Bear prior to 1895.