Fishhook
Sinker
2003-43-210
From: Siberia | Amur River
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 2003-43-210 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Siberia | Amur River |
| Culture Area | Siberia |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Twine | Hide | Iron | Stone |
| Technique | Carved | Lashed | Forged |
| Description | Large barbed fish hook of forged iron; the top end of which is fitted into a piece of carved wood tightened with iron nails bent back on themselves; a hide thong loops through a hole carved at the top of the wood and secures a porous rock sinker above the hook; several vegetable fiber lashings further secure the sinker to the thong. |
| Length | 52.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1899.1.210 - Other Number | 187 (Civic Center, 1957) - Other Number |
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