matau / pohau
Language: unknown
Fishhook
Composite wooden fish hook with a bone tip. The tip is attached to the hook by a binding of New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax). The big hooks were used to catch Bonito. Text: Ulrich Menter
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Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde
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Cultural attribution
Māori
Object type
Angelhaken
Dimensions
Länge: 21 cm, Breite: 16
cm
Material/Technique
Wood, Bones, Plant fibre
Current location
Linden-Museum
Stuttgart
Inventory number
008267
Provenance and sources
Provenance
The Linden
Museum received this object from the ethnologist Georg Thilenius
(1868-1937), who later became the director of the Museum für Völkerkunde
Hamburg. Between 1897 and 1899 Thilenius travelled, among other places,
to the Pacific Islands and New Zealand, where he most probably acquired
this fish hook. Text: Ulrich Menter
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