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IPSMG:R.1939.157.1

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. 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.

Polynesia, Tonga

18th Century, late, 19th Century

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