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A fishhook fashioned from a boar’s tooth used to catch sharks. The hook is embedded with tree resin in a carved wooden shaft.

Data Provider
Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
Fischfanggerät
Dimensions
Length: 250.0 mm
Material/Technique
Resins, Boar's tooth, Wood
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/0523

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1900
  • Change of legal title:
    Donation
    when
    22.11.1901
    who
    Brandeis, Eugen - Former Possessors
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Papua New Guinea (location/origin)
    Melanesia (location/origin)
    Oceania (location/origin)
    Admiralty Islands (location/origin)
    who
    Brandeis, Antonie - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania
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. 89 (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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CC0 1.0 DEED

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