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Te matau

human history
  • Ingoa Kē

    Fish hook

    Te mama ni kai

  • Kupu whakaahua

    Te matau. Fish hook. This is a large wooden fish hook. It has been carved and filed from te ngea (pemphis scidula) wood that is of a mid tone brown colour. It is made up of two parts: a point and a shank that bends. The top of the shank features a gauge that has been filed out in two places. The shank extends to portray a bend. At the end of the shank's bend, a seperate part such as the point has been joined beneath a coil of te kora (coconut sennit fibre cordage).

    The point has been carved to face inwards towards the shank. The wood's grain can be seen across the surface texture and some of the tools markings remain in some areas. A furrow remains over the bend of the point that define the wood's natural characteristics. Small dark brown circles dapple over the wood's surface.

  • Wāhi
  • Accession Number
    1936.95
  • Rā Tāpiringa
    1936
  • Tohu Tuakiri Kē

    24093 (ethnology)

    47 (Maude Collection)

  • Wāhanga
Te matau, 1936.95, 24093, 47, Photographed by Daan Hoffmann,… … Read more

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