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View full screenShark fishing hook (matau hiimao) formed of casuarina wood, with attached looped line of coconut fibre wound round with sinnet: Oceania, French Polynesia, Tuamotu Islands, before 1895
A.1895.368
Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia, Polynesia
Second half 19th century
Pacific Peoples
Hook with barb turned inwards, made of casuarina wood, attached looped line of coconut fibre wound round with sinnet
Darsie Collection