Stick

Fishhook

2003-43-214

From: Siberia | Amur River

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 2003-43-214
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Siberia | Amur River
Culture Area Siberia
Section American
Materials Wood | String | Lead | Iron
Technique Carved | Forged
Description

Small twig crooked at center; long line of vegetable fiber attached at narrow end; excess line wrapped between crook and notched bottom end of twig; small iron hook partially wrapped with string and embedded in a bell-shaped iron sinker, is attached to end of line

Length 50.9 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1899.1.214 - Other Number | 84 (Civic Center, 1957) - Other Number

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