Fishhook
2003-43-207
From: Siberia | Amur River
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 2003-43-207 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Siberia | Amur River |
| Culture Area | Siberia |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Leather | Lead | Iron | Twine |
| Technique | Forge | Tanned |
| Description | Fish hook consisting of large fish-shaped sinker of lead in the bottom of which is embedded two barbed iron hooks; a wide strip of leather runs through a hole pierced at the top of the sinker; a noose of vegetable fiber twine connects the top ends of the leather strip. |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1899.1.207 - Other Number | 179 (Civic Center, 1957) - Other Number |
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