- 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.
- See Elsewhere
- MDS record link
- Record Rights
- Horniman Museum and Gardens
- CC BY-SA
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