fish-hook
- Museum number
- Oc1898,-.29
- Description
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Fish-hook (octopus lure) consisting of a wooden stick to which is tied with fibre binding a bone hook, and a brown spotted cowrie shell as a lure. Below the shell under the stick is tied a grey stone sinker.
- Dimensions
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Height: 10 centimetres (of shell and stone)
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Length: 9 centimetres (of sinker)
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Length: 21 centimetres (of wooden stick)
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Width: 7.50 centimetres (of stone)
- Curator's comments
- Register slip comment:
'Makau lu hee. Squid hook'
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1975 – 1985 12 Dec-23 Jun, London, BM, Museum of Mankind, Hawaii
- Acquisition date
- 1898
- Acquisition notes
- Received in exchange from the Bishop Museum 26 April 1898
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1898,-.29
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1898C3.29 (old CDMS no.)
