Fish hook (Image withheld, pending review)
- Date created
- AD 1000–1600 (Early to Late Mississippian period)
- Culture/People
- probably Central/Middle Mississippian (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Previous owner
- Allen Brown (Allen Lester Brown), Non-Indian, 1895-1977
- Seller
- Allen Brown (Allen Lester Brown), Non-Indian, 1895-1977
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown, but said to have been found circa 1937 in a cache of approximately 350 fish hooks inside a fish-shaped pottery vessel; purchased by MAI from Allen Brown (1895-1977, an Indian artifact dealer and artist in Chicago, Illinois) in 1949.
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- Place
- Mississippi County; Arkansas; USA
- See related items
- Central/Middle Mississippian (archaeological culture)
- Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 21/3365
- Barcode
- 213365.000
- Object Type
- Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
- Object Name
- Fish hook (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Animal Bone
- Techniques
- Carved
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_227697