Halibut Hook

Tlingit (map) or Eyak people, Alaska, United States, d. 19th c.

Carved wood and bone hook attached with cedar bark strips

9½” h x 5½” w (24.13 x 13.97 cm)

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“Two-piece wooden halibut hooks were rigged to hover near the ocean bottom where the big fish feed, tethered to a stone sinker below and to a wooden buoy or inflated seal stomach above. A human or animal image was carved on the hook to entice the fish to bite” (Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center, n.d.).

REFERENCES

“Halibut Hook.” Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center. Accessed July 27, 2020.

https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=244.