fish-hook
- Museum number
- Oc1980,14.6
- Description
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Composite fish-hook consisting of a pearlshell shank with a curved turtle-shell hook attached with nylon bindings passing through two drilled holes in its base. The nylon extends along the upper of the shank and is secured through two drilled holes near the opposite end.
- Production date
- 20thC(mid)
- Dimensions
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Height: 9.50 centimetres
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Width: 1 centimetres
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Depth: 2.50 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good
- Acquisition date
- 1980
- Acquisition notes
- Left on deposit 22 October 1980 at the Museum of Mankind as a possible purchase, receipt number 642. Not collected.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1980,14.6