Lūhe‘e (octopus lure)
- Object status:
- Deaccessioned
- Museum number:
- 11-36983
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110036983
- Accession number:
- Acc.1345
- Description:
- Double-pronged iron octopus lure; cowrie shell and stone lashed to stick. Cowrie shell is lashed to stone around one end of stick; double pronged hook fastened to opposite end with twine extending through holes in cowrie shells.
- Donor:
- Arthur Rodgers and Mr. Carrol J. Rodgers
- Collection place:
- Hawaiian Islands
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Hawaii
- Culture or time period:
- Hawaiian
- Collector:
- Arthur Rodgers
- Collection date:
- 1881
- Taxon:
- Cypraea
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
- Accession date:
- 1960
- Context of use:
- Used as a lure and snag for octopus or squid. Lowered to bottom of ocean floor where stone rests; cowrie appears to be crawling over it and attracts octopus; octopus clings and is then hauled up; the hook prevents the octopus from falling off.
- Department:
- Oceania
- Dimensions:
- length 7.5 inches
- Loans:
- S1976-1977 #11: Department of Nutritional Sciences (UC Berkeley) (September 17, 1976–March 1978) and S1987-1988 #10: Bowers Museum (August 1987–February 16, 1988)
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