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.

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

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shark hook (matau raau)