Детали

IPSMG:ISH.2021.191

Ipswich Collections

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. Very similar to R.1945.157.26 in the Mrs Alice Moore collection.

Polynesia, Tonga

18th Century, late, 19th Century

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