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Actions Displays	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Object number IPSMG:R.1945.157.34 Institution name Ipswich Collections Object name hook Description Lure fish hook made from a bone barb attached through two holes to a pearlshell shank. A wooden support underneath and vegetable fibre lashing to secure. Remnants of white feathers as a hackle and a two-ply twisted vegetable fibre line. Number marked on in black ink: '1966.1.641' and 'Tahiti' and Tahiti written in pencil on the back. Mrs Alice Moore collection. Creator Unrecorded Production place Polynesia, Society Islands, Tahiti Production period 19th Century, late, 20th Century, early Material pearlshell, bone, feather, wood, vegetable fibre Tags Comments Add tag(s) Add comment

Object number

IPSMG:R.1945.157.34
Institution name

Ipswich Collections
Object name

hook
Description

Lure fish hook made from a bone barb attached through two holes to a pearlshell shank. A wooden support underneath and vegetable fibre lashing to secure. Remnants of white feathers as a hackle and a two-ply twisted vegetable fibre line. Number marked on in black ink: '1966.1.641' and 'Tahiti' and Tahiti written in pencil on the back. Mrs Alice Moore collection.
Creator

Unrecorded
Production place

Polynesia, Society Islands, Tahiti
Production period

19th Century, late, 20th Century, early
Material

pearlshell, bone, feather, wood, vegetable fibre

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