matau/lave | Rights management: Übersee-Museum Bremen
Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivs 4.0 International
The fishing hook is made from a bundle of coconut sennit, which leads to a smaller string. This string is tied to the hook. The hook is made from a shell and a turtle shell is the shape of a hook. The shell and the turtle shell are tied with feathers and coconut sennit together. How did the object come to the Übersee-Museum? The collection was purchased by the museum from Otto Tetens in 1907. Tetens was director of the Samoa Observatory of the Royal Society of Sciences in Göttingen in the colony of German Samoa from 1902 to 1905. Nothing is yet known about the exact circumstances of Tetens' acquisition on site.
