1905.63.78.1

Collection type

Object

Description

Turtleshell fish hook with serrated edge. Short length of plant fibre line tied to a notch at top of shank. [LM 25/06/2007]

Geographical reference

Papua New Guinea

Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea

Milne Bay Province Samarai Murua District Marshall Bennett Islands Kwaiawata

Person

Field collector Cooke Daniels expedition

PRM source William Cooke Daniels

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1905

Date collected

1904 - 1905

Acquisition information

Donated: 1905

Materials and processes

Material Turtleshell Reptile, Material Plant Fibre, Material String, Process Carved, Process Notched

Dimensions

Length: max 110 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1905.63.78.1 Other numbers: Cooke Daniels number 78

Associated publications

Illustrated (apparently with 1905.63.78 .3) in black and white in Plate CXXII between pages 80 and 81 in Fish Hooks (Pacific Island Records), by Harry G. Beasley (London: Seeley, Service & Co., Ltd, 1928). Beasley writes (page 45) under the heading 'Part II. Papua and Melanesia' and sub-heading 'Trobirand [sic] Group': 'Various sources have happily supplied examples of the above-mentioned turtle shell hooks, which are invariably delicately formed and of superior workmanship. They are all cut from a flat sheet of shell, and show no trace of having been shaped by heat. Indented ornamental work is usual at the base of the hook, possibly derived from the notches cut for the bait string. The four examples shown in pl. CXXII. were all obtained by the Cook-Daniels [sic] Expedition in 1904–1906, and agree very favourably in most of their details... The snoods are all very short, being made from coarsely twisted sennit.' [JC 24 6 2016]

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