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Artifact Number:
 00779

Object:
FISHHOOK, METAL
Makau

Material:
 Metal (iron), stone, plant (olona fiber)

Dimensions:
 

Origin:
 O'ahu, Hawaii, Polynesia

Comments:
 Miscellaneous Hooks and Lures. Fishhook. Iron, outer barbed hook at each end of an iron shank lashed to a stone sinker. Said to be used for ctaching turtles (Ethnological Card File). Overall length of hook 15.7 cm, diameter 1cm. The waterworn, stone sinker is 9.1 cm long, 8.3 cm wide, and 3.8 cm thick. Lashings of 2-ply foreign cord. Figure 152. (Summers)



Collection Name: J.S. Emerson Collection

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