fish-hook
- Museum number
- Oc1944,02.625
- Description
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Fish-hook made of shell, turtle-shell, vegetable fibre.
- Dimensions
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Length: 13.80 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- White shell is known as gnorung in Nekgini language, and this shell is also used to make nose pints. The barb is made of turtle shell. Poror Nombo and Pinabin Sisau, Reite Village, Madang, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia Project 5 August 2009.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1944
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1944,02.625
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 832 (Original Beasley collection number)
