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Bait

Hawaiian fishermen used special baits and hooks to catch squid. Attracted by shiny cowrie shells and moving plant fibres, the animals could be pulled out of the water with the hooks. Text: Ulrich Menter

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Köder
Dimensions
Height: 18.8 cm
Material/Technique
Stone, Wood, Plant fibre , Cypraea snail, Iron
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
117347

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Museum of Ethnology; 2029
  • Production
    when
    19th century
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Hawaii
Provenance
The object traces back to the collection of the Ethnological Museum Berlin (old inv. no. VI 8505) and came to the Linden-Museum in 1939 through an object exchange with Arthur Speyer. It was acquired by the physician Eduard Arning (1855-1936), who stayed in the Kingdom of Hawai'i from 1883-1886. Text: Ulrich Menter

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