Makau (fishhook)

Object status:
Deaccessioned
Museum number:
11-1928
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.587
Description:
Whale ivory sinker (?) on string attached to short stick. Hook similar to Cat. No. 11-1927: (mother-of-pearl, bone barb), but lacks projecting fiber.
Donor:
Mrs. Jackson R. Myers
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:
1922
Context of use:
Fishhook.
Department:
Oceania
Loans:
S1958-1959 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (April 3, 1959–unknown)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Makau (fishhook), accession number 11-1928, described as Whale ivory sinker (?) on string attached to short stick. Hook similar to Cat. No. 11-1927: (mother-of-pearl, bone barb), but lacks projecting fiber.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Makau (fishhook), accession number 11-1928, described as Whale ivory sinker (?) on string attached to short stick. Hook similar to Cat. No. 11-1927: (mother-of-pearl, bone barb), but lacks projecting fiber.

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