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Description: | Painted label reads E.653 CULT Maori New Zealand Polynesia This fish lure has a straight shaft and small curved hook, possibly taken from a dog's lower jaw. These hooks would have been used to trawl for small fish from a canoe and must have been particularly successful, as these bone hooks were retained in many parts of New Zealand even after metal became available.
This particular hook was originally accessioned as donated by Dr. G. Turner, however there are no items from New Zealand on the 1860 donation list. It may be one of the hooks mentioned by Captain John Laskey in his 1813 account of the museum, in which case it may have been collected on one of the three Pacific voyages of Captain James Cook. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | MAORI : FISHING : JEN : PCOOK : CPAULIN : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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