Hook
Made from a single piece of bone, likely to be from a human thigh bone, or possibly from a dog. The favoured bait was shrimp. This item was collected by midshipman John Woodward Scott. He sailed with Captain George Vancouver to the Northwest Coast and Southeast Alaska, 1791-5.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- E1269a
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Tools for farm and craft
- Material
- bone | | | |
- Common Name
- hook
- Simple Name
- fish hook
- Production Town
- Production County
- Hawai’i
- Production Country
- Hawaiian Islands (United States of America)
- Production Person Initials
- Production Person Surname
- Production Year Low
- Production Year High
- pre 1795
