Fish hook made from the spurred leg-joint of an insect, Eurycantha latro, attached to a snood of plant fibre string. [MJD 11/05/2009]

Collection type: Object
Description: Fish hook made from the spurred leg-joint of an insect, Eurycantha latro, attached to a snood of plant fibre string. [MJD 11/05/2009]
Long description: Fish hook made from the spurred leg-joint of an insect, Eurycantha latro, attached to a snood of plant fibre string. The string passes through the hollow, cylindrical joint and is knotted below. [MJD 12/05/2009]
Geographical reference: Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea; Massim D’Entrecasteaux Islands Goodenough Island
Person: Field collector Diamond Jenness; PRM source Committee for Anthropology, University of Oxford
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1913
Date collected: By 1913
Acquisition information: Donated: 1913
Materials and processes: Material Insect, Material String, Material Plant Fibre, Process Knotted, Process Twisted
Dimensions: Width: max 50 mm, Length: max 130 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1913.88.346

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