1895.22.6

Collection type

Object

Description

Iron fish hook with carved shell lure and red feather hackle bound on with plant fibre. [LM 20/06/2007]

Long description

Iron fish hook with carved shell lure and red feather hackle bound on with plant fibre. Used for fishing with rod and line from a platform in the sea. [LM 20/06/2007]

Geographical reference

Solomon Islands

Oceania > Melanesia > Solomon Islands

Savo

Person

Field collector Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville

Field collector HMS Penguin

PRM source Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1894

Date collected

1893 - 1894

Acquisition information

Donated: 1895

Materials and processes

Material Bird Feather, Material Iron Metal, Material Pearl Shell, Material Plant Fibre, Process Bound, Process Carved

Dimensions

Length: max 42 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1895.22.6

Research and responses

For an account of Somerville's collection from the Solomon Islands, see 'The H. B. T. Somerville Collection of Artefacts from the Solomon Islands in the Pitt Rivers Museum’, by Deborah Waite, in The General’s Gift: A Celebration of the Pitt Rivers Museum Centenary, 1884–1984 (JASO Occasional Papers, no. 3), edited by B. A. L. Cranstone and Steven Seidenberg (Oxford: JASO, 1884), pp. 41–52. (Copy in RDF: Collectors: Somerville.) [JC 24 2 2007]

For an account of Somerville's collecting in the Solomon Islands, see 'Notes and Queries, Science, and “Curios”: Lieutenant Boyle Somerville’s Ethnographic Collecting in the Solomon Islands, 1893–1895’, by Deborah Waite, in JASO: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, Vol. XXXI, no. 3 (Michaelmas 2000), pp. 277-308. (Copy in RDF: Collectors: Somerville.) [JC 24 2 2007]

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