fish-hook
- Museum number
- Oc1944,02.399
- Description
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Mackerel or sardine-hook of pearlshell
- Dimensions
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Height: 3 centimetres
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Width: 1.50 centimetres
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Depth: 0.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Oc1944,02.398 to Oc1944,02.401 are mounted on one card, annotated to read:
Ulawa. Solomon Group. No.632
Small mackeral-hooks and sardine-hooks of pearlshell were used for inshore fishing. (For types of Solomon Islands fish-hooks, see Kascho (1976) Uki Fishhooks).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1944
- Acquisition notes
- From a collection bought by Harry G. Beasley from Rev. Hubert J. Nind of the Melanesian Mission, Norfolk Island, on 12-3-1912, catalogued as Beasley 619 to 634.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1944,02.399
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 632 (Original Beasley collection number)