Детали

IPSMG:R.1945.157.33

Ipswich Collections

Trolling lure, fish hook made of a pearlshell shank, a turtle shell barb shaped like a bird or a fish, attached with two-ply twisted vegetable fibre cord. Written faintly in pencil: 'Solomon Isles'. Mrs Alice Moore collection.

Melanesia, Solomon Islands

19th Century, late, 20th Century, early

pearlshell, turtle shell, vegetable fibre