Fishing apparatus of stone weight tied to half a crab shell with iron hook and crab claw tied inside the shell. [MJD 11/05/2009]

Collection type: Object
Description: Fishing apparatus of stone weight tied to half a crab shell with iron hook and crab claw tied inside the shell. [MJD 11/05/2009]
Geographical reference: Ireland, Republic of
Europe > Northern Europe > Ireland, Republic of; West Coast
Cultural groups: Irish
Person: Field collector Henry Balfour; PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1939
Date collected: By 1939
Acquisition information: Bequeathed: 1939
Materials and processes: Material Animal Claw, Material Crustacean-Shell Animal, Material Stone, Material String, Material Iron Metal, Process Carved, Process Tied, Process Twisted, Process Forged (Metal), Process Perforated, Process Bound
Dimensions: Width: max 102 mm, Length: max 149 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1938.35.1603 Other numbers: 2273
Associated publications: A line drawing of this (or 1938.35.1604) is reproduced on page 176 of 'Stone and Other Artifacts', by A. M. T. Moore, in Village on the Euphrates: From Foraging to Farming at Abu Hureya, by A. M. T. Moore, G. C. Hillman, and A. J. Legge (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 165-86. (Photocopy in RDF.) [JC 27 5 2015]

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