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Fishhook

Composite wooden fishing hook with a bone tip. The tip is attached to the hook by a binding of New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax). The big hooks were used to catch Bonito. Text: Ulrich Menter

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Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde
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Cultural attribution
Māori
Object type
Angelhaken
Dimensions
Breite: 15.5 cm, Höhe: 20 cm, Tiefe: 1.6 cm
Material/Technique
Wood, New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax), Bones
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
008266

Provenance and sources

when
before 1899

where
New Zealand

when
1900
Provenance
The Linden Museum received this object from the ethnologist Georg Thilenius (1868-1937), who later became the director of the Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg. Between 1897 and 1899 Thilenius travelled, among other places, to the Pacific Islands and New Zealand, where he most probably acquired this fishing hook. Text: Ulrich Menter

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