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Picking hook

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Picking hook
Dimensions
Height: 3,7 cm
Width: 27,7 cm
Depth: 9 cm
Weight: 2 kg
Material/Technique
Wood, Parinarium fruit putty, Snail shell (Trochus)
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 42560

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1933
    where
    Melanesia
    Admiralty Islands
    Papua New Guinea
  • Collecting
    who
    Thiel, Max - Former Possessors
    Fr. G. Hofer - Former Possessors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania

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