fish-hook
- Museum number
- Oc1944,02.426
- Description
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Fish-hook (casting-hook) made of carved and polished turtleshell with a pearlshell lure attached to the shank with a vegetable fibre cord and gum. Two hackles made of vegetable fibre extend from the bottom of the lure. Each hackle has four blue glass beads attached.
- Production date
- 19th Century (Pre- 1891)
- Dimensions
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Height: 7 centimetres
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Width: 1 centimetres
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Depth: 2.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Casting-lure fish-hooks were used to catch bonito from the bow of the canoe. (For types of Solomon Islands fish-hooks, see Kascho (1976) Uki Fishhooks).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1944
- Acquisition notes
- Ex Admiral Davis collection, HMS Royalist, 1890-3
Collected on Admiral Davis' second voyage on the HMS Royalist to Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands, specifically between 3rd June 1891 and 25th August 1891.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1944,02.426
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 2557 (Beasley catalogue)