Walrus tusk crochet hook with 16 small plastic inlay circles in orange and green. Small hook at one end, the other end is thicker and carved in the shape of a bear(?) head, with green inlaid dots for eyes. In the next section a thinner bear head is carved, facing a different direction from the first one, also with green eyes. Hook is unsigned.

« Two pot hooks of alder twigs are bent at one end to form a loop and lashed with spruce root. At the other end a hook is formed by a small branch (fig. 5c). » Vanstone, James W. "The Speck Collection of Montagnais Material Culture from the Lower St. Lawrence Drainage, Quebec." Fieldiana. Anthropology. New Series, No. 5 (October 29, 1982), p.9, fig 5c (p.33).

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

Iron Fish Hook

string and rope attached; inactive rust and patina

Bone shard identified as a probable fish hook J. McCarthy 10/20/2009

Bone shard identified as a probable fish hook J. McCarthy 10/20/2009

Original CatalogNotes & References: HARNESS OR CARRIAGE LOOPDates Range: Mark/Pattern: Modern (less than 50 years old):

Original CatalogNotes & References: HOOK FROM HOOK & EYE CLOSURE SETDates Range: Mark/Pattern: Modern (less than 50 years old):

This copper fish hook is made of thin, bent copper wire. It re-curves slightly away from hook side as one travels up the shaft.