Fish Line And Hook Item Number: E2240-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/194 , retrieved 1-3-2020: According to the Smithsonian Institution's catalogue information, this bundle of cotton twine was part of a collection that also included a number of fish hooks. The twine most likely had been obtained by Inuvialuit through trade at Fort Anderson.
Item History
- Made in Northwest Territories, Canada
- Collected in Northwest Territories, Canada
- Received from Roderick R. MacFarlane on December 21, 1866
What
- Name
- Fish Line And Hook
- Identification Number
- E2240-0
- Type of Item
- fish line
Who
- Culture
- Eskimo, Inuit and Inuvialuk
- Received from
- Roderick R. MacFarlane
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Northwest Territories, Canada
- Collected in
- Northwest Territories, Canada
When
- Acquisition Date
- on December 21, 1866
Other
- Accession Number
- 66A00090