fish-hook
- Museum number
- Oc1944,02.414
- Description
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10 fish-hooks of pearlshell, mounted on a single card.
- Dimensions
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Height: 2.50 centimetres
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Width: 1 centimetres
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Depth: 0.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Oc1944,02.410 to Oc1944,02.420 are all mounted on one card labelled:
BEASLEY COLLECTION / SOLOMON, ULAWA / 1842
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
- Beasley catalogue reads, for a collection acquired 18-7-1926 and numbered 1832 to 1861:
- The Melanesian Mission -
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1944,02.414
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 1842 (Beasley catalogue)