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Fishhook

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A fishing hook for catching big fish, carved from hardwood and fitted with braided coir rope. Despite the ever-present significance of fishing on the Marshall Islands, the traditional methods of making fishhooks have largely disappeared. The majority of hooks used today are imported from the USA, even though they are prohibitively expensive for many islanders.

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Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
Angelhaken
Dimensions
Length: 200.0 mm
Width: 100.0 mm
Length: 795.0 mm
Material/Technique
Hardwood, Coconut fibre
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/1278

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1900
  • Change of legal title:
    Donation
    when
    24.04.1900
    who
    Brandeis, Eugen - Former Possessors
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Marshall Islands (location/origin)
    Micronesia (location/origin)
    Oceania (location/origin)
    who
    Brandeis, Antonie - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania
Provenance
Donated by Eugen Brandeis (Imperial Governor of the Marshall Islands) April 1900, collected by Antonie Brandeis (Jaluit) /Donated by Eugen Brandeis (Imperial Governor of the Marshall Islands) April 1900, collected by Antonie Brandeis (Jaluit) The provenance of this object is unclear. In the old inventory book, the object is catalogued with the old number 2152 as an "Old shark hook made of dolphin tooth", with the addition "Old, rare piece from a chief" and assigned to the Brandeis collection. In the object list for the 2nd Brandeis consignment of November 1901, this corresponds to object no. 32 "Old shark hook. Dolphin tooth. Old, rare specimen from a chieftain" (SAF C3/241/2). However, this object appears to be a different fishhook, as the hook is made of hardwood. It is possible that the collector had already made the mistake, or perhaps the object was mistaken for another fishhook after it arrived in Freiburg. In this case, it could be no. 47 or 48 of the first Brandeis consignment from April 1900 with the old inventory numbers 1322 and 1323 ("Haifischhaken. Catj in kabogo. Wurzel d. Eisenholzbaumes", SAF D.Sm 35/1), neither of which received new inventory numbers.

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