Fishing Implement
2003-43-223
From: Siberia | Amur River
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 2003-43-223 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Siberia | Amur River |
| Culture Area | Siberia |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Lead | Twine |
| Technique | Carved | Lashed |
| Description | Two small pieces of wood lashed together with vegetable fiber string in the shape of a Latin cross; a lead weight is lashed on top of the shorter cross bar; a line is attached through holes in the longer cross bar above and below the crossing; that line hangs freely below the device; a small notch is cut at the bottom of the long piece. |
| Length | 14.6 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1899.1.223 - Other Number | 184 (Civic Center, 1957) - Other Number |
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