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fishing hook

The fishhook 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 and brown colouring of the shell can be seen on the outside of the hook. The other end of the piece of wood has two carved sections above the hole for attaching the string. Handwritten on the side is "Admiralitäts-I. Nauer".

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
fishing tackle
Dimensions
General: 3 × 7.5 × 27.5 cm
Material/Technique
Wood; shell
carved
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D10973
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D10973

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

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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