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Actions Displays	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Object number IPSMG:R.1939.157.1 Institution name Ipswich Collections Object name hook Description Lure hook made of a whalebone shank with an outer face of pearlshell, a turtleshell hook, a vegetable fibre hackle at one end and a plaited olona bast fibre line at the other end. See similar in Pitt Rivers Museum collection 1886.1.1301. Label bagged up with these IPSMG:R.1939.157.a-b: 'Fish hooks shaped from Pearl shell - Tahiti Society Isles. From Green and Hatfield, antiques dealer on Fore Street in Ipswich. Production place Polynesia, Tonga Production period 18th Century, late, 19th Century Material whalebone, pearlshell, turtleshell, vegetable fibre, olona bast fibre Tags Comments Add tag(s) Add comment

Object number

IPSMG:R.1939.157.1
Institution name

Ipswich Collections
Object name

hook
Description

Lure hook made of a whalebone shank with an outer face of pearlshell, a turtleshell hook, a vegetable fibre hackle at one end and a plaited olona bast fibre line at the other end. See similar in Pitt Rivers Museum collection 1886.1.1301. Label bagged up with these IPSMG:R.1939.157.a-b: 'Fish hooks shaped from Pearl shell - Tahiti Society Isles. From Green and Hatfield, antiques dealer on Fore Street in Ipswich.
Production place

Polynesia, Tonga
Production period

18th Century, late, 19th Century
Material

whalebone, pearlshell, turtleshell, vegetable fibre, olona bast fibre

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