Hook Item Number: 1922.952 A-B from the MAA: University of Cambridge
Two trolling fish hooks with bone points lashed on with bark, both have long and flexible shafts made from whalebone. A) has a slightly curved shaft.; Good.These two fishhooks would have been used for catching spring salmon or cod. They both have antler points, which are attached with bark to the baleen shafts.Exhbited: On loan to'Arctic Ambitions: Captain Cook and the Northwest Passage', at the Anchorage Museum, Alaska, 27 March- 7 September 2015; and the Washington State Historical Museum Tacoma/Seattle 16 October- 10 January 2016
Sarah Stones illustration (Sketchbook II:43), which may depict 1922.952 A-B (see Kaeppler (2011) above), also appears in Force Force Art and Artefacts of the 18th Century: Objects in the Leverian Museum As Painted by Sarah Stone (1968:162).Kaeppler Holophusicon: The Leverian Museum (2011:221) notes the general provenance for these objects likely falls within the area from Nootka Sound in Canada to Unalaska, Alaska, USA. Place field updated to reflect this.