File:History of Inventions USNM 26 Fish Hooks.png
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English: No. 1. Fijian fishhool£ consisting of a curved root, with the bend pointed for
flulie, and a line of coconut fiber fastened to the straighter shank_ 8,674 No. 2. Fishhooks from Sandwich Islands and from California, made from a single piece of bone or shell. The first named has braided line, 3,676, 97,828 No. 3. Plain hooks of metal, Peru. A bit of wire bent, pointed at the shorter end and attached to a line at the other 17,501 No. 4. Halibut hooks from North Pacific coast of America. Shank bent around so as to form a fluke. The barb is provided by bending in the point of the shank or by lashing on a spindle-shape bone, pointed inward- _ 72,648 No. 5. Chilkat halibut hook from Alaska, made of a forked stick. The smaller prong acts as shank, with line tied to its middle. An Iron spike lashed to the larger prong acts as a barb. It has for a float a piece of wood carved in shape of a duck. No. 6. Polynesian fishhook. Shank of stone or shell, perforated at the top for a line ; fluke of bone or shell, without barb, perforated at the butt and lashed to the shank 9,797, 2,844, 8,894 No. 7. Eskimo fishhook from Alaska. Stank of bone or stone carved in form of lures ; fluke of metal fixed into the bottom of the shank, 89,550, 153,461 No. 8. Tomcod hook, Eskimo, Plover Bay, Siberia. Single barbed lure, as in No. 11 46,264 No. 9. Fishhooks from North Pacific coast of America. Shanks of whalebone and wood ; flukes of wood or bone, pointed and lashed at a small angle to the bottom of the shank 74.188, 49,172 No. 10. Eskimo fishhooks from Alaska with two or more points of bone 40,264 No. 11. Eskimo fishhooks from Alaska in which a barbed spreader has a number of composite hooks attached 44,370 No. 12. Eskimo and Polynesian fishhooks showing a primitive form of the barb ; shank of wood or shell ; fluke of bone or tortoise shell lashed on the bottom of the shank 126,984 No. 13. Barbed fishhooks, of shell and metal, with lure 89,545 No. 14. The latest pattern, with steel hooks and artificial bait. |
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| Source | Walter Hough (1922). Synoptic series of objects in the United States National Museum illustrating the history of inventions. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 60 (2404). 1-47, 56 pl. |
| Author | United States National Museum (Smithsonian Institution), Washington D.C. |
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