Fish lure or hook. Stone, gut and beads, four colors. Black and white banded stone attached to walrus ivory, 2 blue beads, 2 sections of orange-yellow auklet bill. Curved iron hook.
Donor:
Rupert Schultheiss
Collection place:
Western Yukon, Yukon, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Western Yukon
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Mrs. Rupert Schultheiss
Collection date:
ca. 1898-1901
Taxon:
Aethia and Odobenus rosmarus
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Lures
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1956
Context of use:
For sculpin.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 3.7 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: cf. Nelson p. 178 and pl. LXIX.
Loans:
S1964-1965 #34a: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 16, 1964–March 25, 1966) and S1964-1965 #72: Heard Museum (March 25, 1965–September 24, 1965)