fish-hook
- Museum number
- Oc1944,02.260
- Description
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Fish-hook made of wood with a bone point; long plaited coconut fibre line.
- Production date
- 19th Century (Pre- 1892)
- Dimensions
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Height: 44 centimetres
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Width: 11 centimetres
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Depth: 9 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- 1944 Beasley register - information in observations column:
'Ex Admiral Davis collection H.M.S. Royalist 1890-3
Gilbert Islands'
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1944
- Acquisition notes
- Collected on Admiral Davis' third voyage on the HMS Royalist to Kiribati, the Marshall Islands and Tuvalu, specifically between 25th May 1892 and 14th July 1892.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1944,02.260
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 2525 (Beasley catalogue)
