Fish hook of pale brown turtle shell with point facing inwards. [MJD 16/04/2009]

Collection type: Object
Description: Fish hook of pale brown turtle shell with point facing inwards. [MJD 16/04/2009]
Geographical reference: Polynesia
Oceania > Polynesia
Person: Field collector Johann Reinhold Forster; Field collector Georg Forster; Field collector HMS Resolution; Field collector Frederick William Beechey; Field collector HMS Blossom; PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1836
Date collected: 1773-1774 (?) or 1806 - 1836
Acquisition information: Transferred: 19/04/1886
Materials and processes: Material Turtleshell Reptile, Process Carved, Process Ground
Dimensions: Width: max 25 mm, Length: max 47 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.1.1296 Other numbers: 212 - 230 or 361
Research and responses: According to Peter Gathercole there is not enough distinctive stylistic evidence or concrete documentation to determine whether any of the fish hooks included in the Cook catalogue were collected by the Forsters or if they could even be associated with Cook voyages. [PG 26/2/97] However, a number of fish hooks have been assigned Forster numbers (1282, 1292, and 1301-1305) but these attributions are tenuous due to the above stated reasons. This object has not been designated a 'Forster' number. [undated, unsigned, but NMM; JC 9 7 2015]

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