Makau (fishhook)

Museum number:

11-44055

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Alternate number:

11-1244 (previous museum number (recataloged from)) and 11-1926 (original number, Misnumbered as)

Accession number:

Acc.334 and Acc.587

Description:

Mother-of-pearl. With metal barb, pale tan fiber attachment, and attached cord.

Donor:

Mrs. Jackson R. Myers and Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

Kauai, Hawaiian Windward Islands, Hawaiian Islands

Verbatim coll. place:

Hawaii; Kauai; Kauai

Culture or time period:

Hawaiian

Collector:

Jackson R. Myers

Collection date:

1905-1917

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Fishhooks

Function:

1.1 Hunting and Fishing

Accession date:

1908 and 1922

Context of use:

Fishhook.

Department:

Oceania

Dimensions:

12 centimeters

Comment:

This was a second fishhook with number 11-1926. It should have been labeled 11-1244, from acc 334.

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