Hook
Large wooden bait hook, with inward-curved point. Braided sennit binding below point. Braided sennit snood. The wood point is probably separate.”
Height (no snood) 300 x width = 170mm.
Originally acquired by 1st Lieutenant Francis Godolphin Bond on the HMS Providence in 1792. Bond donated this item to the Devon and Exeter Institution in 1815, of which he was a proprietor. The Devon & Exeter Institution presented this hook to the Albert Memorial Museum in 1872.
Height (no snood) 300 x width = 170mm.
Originally acquired by 1st Lieutenant Francis Godolphin Bond on the HMS Providence in 1792. Bond donated this item to the Devon and Exeter Institution in 1815, of which he was a proprietor. The Devon & Exeter Institution presented this hook to the Albert Memorial Museum in 1872.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- E1739
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Tools for farm and craft
- Collection Area Region
- POLYN
- Material
- woodcoconut fibre
- Common Name
- hook
- Simple Name
- shark hook
- Production County
- Tahiti, Society Islands
- Production Country
- French Polynesia (Overseas Collectivity of France)
- Production Year Low
- 1791
- Production Year High
- 1792