Fishhook
67-5-91
From: Solomon Islands | Santa Ana, Solomon Islands
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 67-5-91 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Solomon Islands | Santa Ana, Solomon Islands |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Shell | Turtle Shell |
| Description | Barbless hook, complete, barbless of turtle shell with shell lure attached. This type of hook used also in bonito fishing only, but not for continuous trolling as 67-5-86,89,90. In bonito canoes man in bow of canoe casts his line into school of bonito with this kind of hook and lure. No barb so the fish will disengage easily when landed in canoe. |
| Height | 1 cm |
| Length | 12.1 cm |
| Width | 1.4 cm |
| Credit Line | William Kohler Expedition; William H. Davenport, 1967 |
| Other Number | A3 - Other Number |
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