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fishing hook

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The fishing hook consists of a carved, elongated piece of wood with a curved piece of shell attached to the wider end as a hook with putty. The pattern and the pink colouring of the shell can still be seen on the outside. The other end of the piece of wood is decorated with two carved sections above the hole for attaching the cord, the tip of which is in the shape of a stylised tail fin. "Admiralty Island Nauer 8 XII 09" is handwritten on the side.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
fishing tackle
Dimensions
General: 3 × 7.5 × 27 cm
Material/Technique
Wood; shell
carved
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D10967
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D10967

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
Secondary literature
Ohnemus, Sylvia: Zur Kultur der Admitalitäts-Insulaner in Melanesien, Basel, 1996, S. 124

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED

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