fish-hook
- Museum number
- Oc1927,0310.42
- Description
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Trolling-lure with pearlshell shank and turtleshell barb. Bead hackle.
- Dimensions
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Height: 6 centimetres
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Width: 1 centimetres
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Depth: 1.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Trolling-lure fish-hooks were used to catch bonito from the stern of the canoe. (see: Kascho [1976] 'Uki Fishhooks' for Solomon Islands fish-hook types, and Cummings [1974] 'Distribution of Compound Fishhook Types' for some provenances)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1927
- Acquisition notes
- Gerald C Wheeler was an anthropologist who researched in Solomon Islands in 1908 to 1909 on an expedition with W. H. R. Rivers and A. M. Hocart. He began on Simbo but spent most of his time on Alu. He gave collections of artefacts to the British Museum in 1927, registered as Oc1927.0310 and Oc1927.1003 and documented in Eth Doc 1096.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1927,0310.42