Детали

IPSMG:R.1945.157.34

Ipswich Collections

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.

Polynesia, Society Islands, Tahiti

19th Century, late, 20th Century, early

pearlshell, bone, feather, wood, vegetable fibre