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  • Ingoa Kōrero Noa
    Fish hook
  • Ingoa Kē

    fish hook, trolling lure shank

  • Kupu whakaahua

    fish hook, trolling lure shank. Tapers in width at the proximal end with a bilateral hole. Distal end has a point seating platform and a broad groove on the ventral surface, with a groove on the same side in the end of the shank forming two knobs. Triangular cross section. Stone.

  • Wāhi
  • Accession Number
    1936.67
  • Tohu Tuakiri Kē

    22480.2 (ethnology)

  • Wāhanga
pa, 1936.67, 22480.2, Photographed by Awhina Kerr, digital,… … Read more

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