fish-hook
- Museum number
- Am1986,18.4
- Description
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Trolling hook with a spruce root wood shank, antler barb, 'V'shaped' with a long leader of split quill, and a hank of plaited nettle fibre cord.
- Production date
- 1780-1850
- Dimensions
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Length: 26 centimetres (shank and leader)
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Length: 6.50 centimetres (shank)
- Curator's comments
- See note for previous. JCK 26/6/97.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair: the leader has come away from the shank and bound back to itt with commercial twine.
- Acquisition date
- 1986
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1986,18.4
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1986 Am 18.32d
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Miscellaneous number: 32d (Truro number)