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1938.35.1604

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]

1938.35.1604

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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]
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
Dimensions
Width: max 100 mm, Length: max 610 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1938.35.1604 Other numbers: 2274
Associated publications
A line drawing of this (or 1938.35.1603) 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]

Search terms: Fishing, Fishing Accessory, Hook, Weight

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