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Te kaneati

human history
  • Ingoa Kē

    Bonito lure (English)

  • Kupu whakaahua

    Te kaneati. Bonito lure. This is made up of three components: te bwaeao (pearl shell), wood, te ira n atu (human hair). The shank is made of bwaeao, lustre in colour, shaped and smoothed into a tubular form, probably using an atitai (hard coral stone). One end is concaved into a V-shape. Adjacent to this is the lashing of the point, made of wood, and a hackle of hair to the shank. A thin kora of ira n atu tightly wraps the collective objects together.

    The other end of the the shank is round in form with a perforation bored through the shank. A thick and extremely long kora of ira n atu is threaded through the perforation and tied at the base. This kora is partly coiled and it is in this form whereby the measurement of length is derived from.

  • Wāhi
    Beru/Gilbert Islands/Kiribati Onotoa/Gilbert Islands/Kiribati
  • Accession Number
    1936.295
  • Rā Tāpiringa
    1936
  • Tohu Tuakiri Kē

    23916 (ethnology)

  • Wāhanga

    Pacific

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