Fish hook
- Description
- To a predator, the reflective surface of the shell resembles the shiny body of a fish swimming in the water. Therefore this hook requires no bait and would have been used to catch large fish like tuna.
- Accession Loan No.
- 83/2005/3
- Collection Class
- Tools for farm and craft
- Common Name
- fish hook
- Simple Name
- trolling lure
- Full Name
- trolling lure
- Dimensions
- Whole length 92 mm; Whole H 17 mm; Whole width 15 mm
- Production Year Low
- 1950
- Production Year High
- 1967
- Production County
- Florida
- Production Country
- Solomon Islands
- Production Area Region
- Melanesia
- Production Continent
- Oceania
- Family Group
- Material
- clamshell; tortoiseshell; vegetable fibre
- Collection Area Region
- Melanesia
- Collection Continent
- Pacific
