1966.1.877

Collection type

Object

Description

Shark hook with long wooden point bound to V shaped wooden shank with plant fibre. [MJD 17/06/2009]

Long description

Shark hook with long wooden point bound to V shaped wooden shank with plant fibre. A broken line of twisted plant fibre is bound to the shank and another length of plant fibre is tied in a loop alongside. [MJD 17/06/2009]

Geographical reference

New Zealand

Oceania > Australia and New Zealand > New Zealand

Cultural groups

Māori

Person

Field collector Unknown Collector

PRM source Ipswich Museum

PRM source Patricia Margaret Maclaren Butler

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1966

Date collected

By 1966

Acquisition information

Purchased: 1966

Materials and processes

Material Wood Plant, Material Sennit Coconut Seed Fibre Plant, Process Bound, Process Carved, Process Plaited, Process Twisted, Process Tied

Dimensions

Width: max 75 mm, Length: max 225 mm, Length 175 mm shank, Length 45 mm hook

Object numbers

Accession number: 1966.1.877

Research and responses

Examined by Chris Paulin (Natural Environment Projects Officer at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa) during a visit to the PRM 24-26 June 2009. For an account of Paulin's project, see copy of his unpublished 'Research Report: Māori Fishhooks in European Museums - Winston Churchill Fellowship 2009' in RDF: Researchers: Paulin. See also: 'Māori Fishhooks in European Museums', by Chris D. Paulin, in Tuhinga: Records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, no. 21 (2010), pp. 13-41, esp. 27-29 (copy in RDF: Researchers: Paulin). NB Paulin does not list the item in his list of 'Hooks Examined' (see page 29 of his article), but the item is one of those made available for him to examine. [JC 12 8 2010]

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