Kew Collection;fish hook;fish hook


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From The Collection Of
Horniman Museum and Gardens
Discipline
Humanities
Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Date
1700 – 1800 (creation date)
Materials and Techniques
wood (material)
plant fibre (material)
bone (material)
Place
British Columbia, Canada, North America, Americas (creation)
Description
Compound U-shaped wooden fish hook, probably hemlock, with an attached bone or ivory barb. The two ends are bound with vegetable fibre or bark strips which also holds the barb in place. Vegetable fibre cord attached. The bone barb suggests 18th Century.;Compound U-shaped hook of wood (probably hemlock) with bone barb lashed so that is points inwards and downwards. Lashings of birch bark.
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Record Rights
Horniman Museum and Gardens
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