Fishing gear | Photographer: Axel Killian
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Fishing gear
A fishhook fashioned from a boar’s tooth used to catch sharks. The hook is embedded with tree resin in a carved wooden shaft. 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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Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Object type
Fischfanggerät
Dimensions
Länge: 235.0 mm, Breite: 80.0 mm
Material/Technique
Boar's tooth
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/0522
Provenance and sources
when
before 1900
when
22.11.1901
where
New Guinea (location/origin)
Melanesia (location/origin)
Oceania (location/origin)
Provenance
Donated by Eugen Brandeis (Imperial Governor of the Marshall Islands) November 1901, collected by Antonie Brandeis (Jaluit) /Donated by Eugen Brandeis (Imperial Governor of the Marshall Islands) November 1901, collected by Antonie Brandeis (Jaluit)
Object no. 90 (Object list Antonie Brandeis, 2nd consignment 1901, SAF C3/241/2): "Shark hook. Wood"
How the New Guinea objects came into the Brandeis couple's collection is still unclear. Possibly via the collector and employee of the trading company Hernsheim & Co. in Matupi (Bismarck Archipelago) Maximilian Franz Thiel. This is suggested by a letter dated 6 April 1899, which Eugen Brandeis sent from Jaluit to the Freiburg Museum of Natural History and Ethnology (SAF C3/241/1).
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