Drop Line
Fishhook
2003-43-222
From: Siberia | Amur River
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 2003-43-222 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Siberia | Amur River |
| Culture Area | Siberia |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Iron | Bone | Plant Fiber |
| Technique | Forged | Carved |
| Description | A narrow vegetable fiber line attached at one end to a wooden stick which is notched at each end for wrapping excess line; the opposite end of the line is attached to a thicker vegetable fiber line, equal in length to first; a large barbed iron hook embedded in a long piece of bone is attached to the end of this line; because of disparity in size the hook and stick may not belong together. |
| Length | 73.1 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1899.1.222 - Other Number | 74-1-107 - Other Number | 94 - Other Number |
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