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fishing hook

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The fishhook consists of a carved, elongated piece of wood with a curved piece of shell attached to the wider end as a hookwith putty. The pattern and the pink and brown colouring of the shell can be seen on the outside. Next to the hole for attaching the string, the wood has thin, grid-like notches. At the thinner end of the wooden stick are two carved sections, one of which is in the shape of a stylised tail fin. "Admiralty Island 8 XII 09 Nauer" is handwritten on the side.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
fishing tackle
Dimensions
General: 3 × 7 × 32.5 cm
Material/Technique
Wood; shell carved
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D10987
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D10987

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1900-1910
    where
    Admiralty Islands
  • Change of physical control
    when
    not documented
    who
    Nauer, Karl - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED

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