Barbed halibut hook.

Collection type: Object
Description: Barbed halibut hook.
Long description: Barbed halibut hook, carved with a bird figure. Made from two pieces of wood bound together with cedar bark, with a length of cedar bark rope attached through a perforation.
Geographical reference: Canada
Northern America > North America > Canada
Cultural groups: Nuu-chah-nulth
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1874
Date collected: By 1874
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Cedar Bark Fibre Plant, Material Rope, Process Carved
Dimensions: Length: max 310 mm, Width: max 160 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.11.48 PR Cat other PR nos: 2184
Research and responses: In Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Pitt Rivers ms collections there is a handwritten list [P141] headed 'A catalogue of M.General [sic - Major General] Pitt Rivers' Anthropological Collection Objects illustrating Animal Form conventionalised in Ornamentation from different countries' which seems to be a list of all items which were associated with the display entitled 'Illustrations of Human and Animal form Cases 92 - 93' in Bethnal Green and South Kensington Museums. A photocopy of this list is held by Alison Petch [AP 23/03/2005]

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