Stick
Fishhook
2003-43-215
From: Siberia | Amur River
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 2003-43-215 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Siberia | Amur River |
| Culture Area | Siberia |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Twine | Iron | Lead |
| Technique | Forged |
| Description | Short fishing stick consisting of small twig, crooked at center and notched at narrow end; a long vegetable fiber line is wrapped around the thicker end of the stick; an iron hook embedded in a bullet-shaped lead sinker is attached to the end of the line via a piece of coiled metal wire |
| Length | 22.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1899.1.215 - Other Number | 359/52 - Other Number | 199 (Civic Center, 1957) - Other Number |
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