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fish hook, trolling lure shank

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human history
  • Common Name
    Fish hook
    Fishing line
    sinker
  • Other Name

    Fish hook shank (English)

  • Description

    fish hook, trolling lure shank. Bone. Lashing end has a groove around the circumference intersected by a dorsal ventral hole. Carved design on head consists of 2 circular grooves, 1 on each side of the perforation, which is 2 mm diameter. Width 16 mm. Point seating has a broad groove around two thirds of the circumference and a narrow platform for the point. Sea mammal bone.

  • Place
    New Zealand
  • Associated Place

    Coromandel/Coromandel District/Waikato/New Zealand

    Oruarangi Pa/Coromandel District/Waikato/New Zealand

  • Accession Number
    1933.379
  • Accession Date
    1933
  • Other Id

    19566.7 (ethnology)

    1704 (Taonga Database)

  • Department

    Archaeology

  • Display Room

    Maori Court East

19566.7

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