Exhibition (Maudslay Gallery)
EXH.2018.4 | Pacific Currents
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Author: Remke Velden

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Loan (Exhibition)
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA, Norwich, October 15 2016- February 12 2017, Fiji: Art and Life in the Pacific
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Author: maa

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Loan (Exhibition)
Polynésie, June 2008-Sept 2008
Event Date
Author: maa

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Loan (Exhibition)
Exhibition \'Pacific Divinities: Gods, Chiefs and Priests in Polynesia 1760-1850\', March 2006-May 2006.
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Author: maa

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Description (CMS Description)
Fishhook. Body of bone, back of pearl shell, barbed hook of turtle shell, snood of fibre.
Event Date 1/6/1996
Author: maa

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Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card 1 reads [stamped in black ink:] 'Z 3322 FIJI'. [stamped in blue ink in the top right corner:] 'SHOW CASE NUMBER 12'. A round red sticker pasted on the card. [typed:] 'Fishhook, body of bone back of pearl shell, barbed hook of turtle shell, snood of fibre. On the occasion of the cession of the Fiji Islands to the British 1874, a fish hook was handed over to the British authorities by a minor chief other than Thakombau the Vuni Valu, as a pledge of good faith as regards the sea and all that it stood for it, - fishing, navigation etc: at the same time a kava root was handed over as a pledge for the land. Z 3320. There is no absolute proof that exhibit No Z- 3322 is the actual fishhook referred to, but after careful investigation there seems a reasonable degree of certainty that it corresponds with that referred to in accessions register 1918, Folio 87, which entry does not appear to have been included in the annual reports for 1917 nor 1918, - "213- 77- A large fishhook of spear bone, with pearl shell back and turtle shell [back of the card:] barb (x) attached to a stout snood of plaited fibre. The fishhook was presented to H. E. Sir A. H. Gordon the first governor of Fiji as a token of homage to the British crown on the occasion of the formal cession of the islands at government house, ? May 1875, Driamba [sic], Ovalau 1876. Stanmore collection, the Lord Stanmore. 1912. S Cowles, for many years employed at the Museum of A & E and in close touch with the Baron A von Hugel when Curator and whose memory is (1933) very accurate, says that the Baron told him the foregoing. F. J. Hayter, Hon Keeper'.
Catalogue card 2 reads [handwritten in black ink:] ' Z. 3322. Fishhook, body of bone back of pearl shell, barbed hook of turtle shell, snood of fibre. On the occasion of the cession of the Fiji Islands to the British 1874, a fish hook was handed over to the British authorities by a minor chief other than Thakombau the Vuni Valu, as a pledge of good faith as regards the sea and all that it stood for it, - fishing, navigation etc: at the same time a kava root was handed over as a pledge for the land. Z 3320. There is no absolute proof that exhibit No Z- 3322 is the actual fishhook referred to, but after careful investigation [back of the card:] there seems a reasonable degree of certainty that it corresponds with that referred to in accessions register 1918, Folio 87, which entry does not appear to have been included in the annual reports for 1917 nor 1918, - "213- 77- A large fishhook of spear bone, with pearl shell back and turtle shell barb (x) attached to a stout snood of plaited fibre. The fishhook was presented to H. E. Sir A. H. Gordon the first governor of Fiji as a token of homage to the British crown on the occasion of the formal cession of the islands at government house, ? May 1875, Driamba [sic], Ovalau 1876. Stanmore collection, the Lord Stanmore. 1912.'
Catalogue card 3 reads [handwritten in black ink:] 'S Cowles, for many years employed at the Museum of A & E and in close touch with the Baron A von Hugel when Curator and whose memory is (1933) very accurate, says that the Baron told him the foregoing. F. J. H. Hon Keeper'.
Catalogue card 4 reads [handwritten in blue ink:] 'On the occasion of the cession of the Fiji Islands to Great Britain 1875, this large fishhook, Z 3322, was handed over to the British Government authorities by a minor chief (other than Thakombau), as a pledge of good faith in respect of the sea and all it stood for at the same time Thakombau handed over a s pledge of good faith a kava root, Z 3320, Show case No 12, in respect of the land. Related by S. Cowles, 13/7/31) who was told it by the Baron von Hügel. Show Case Number 12.
Event Date 1/6/1996
Author: maa

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Description (CMS Description)
Fish-hook. The shank is formed of a piece of whalebone, tapering at the lower end, to which has been lashed a flat piece of pearl-shell with a yellow tint. The point is carved from a piece of turtle shell. It is flat where it rests against the shank, with a point project upwards and an inner barb. The surface of the point is very scratched. The point is pierced at the top and the bottom of the flat part and is attached to the shank with a cord twisted and non-twisted ?hibiscus fibre. The lower lashing also include a vegetable fibre (?hibiscus) tassel. To the top of the shank is also lashed the snood of 4-ply plaited hibiscus fibre. The part of the snood between the top of the point and the top of the shank is wrapped in thin cords of twisted hibiscus fibre. The snood is tied to the shank and the back of pearl-shell (see two holes at the back) at the top of the shank.
Event Date 10/10/2012
Author: maa

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Context (CMS Context)
Can this fish-hook also be 1918.213.77 - a fish-hook from Tonga?
Event Date 26/2/2014
Author: Lucie Carreau

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Context (CMS Context)
Labels & inscriptions: 'Z- 3322' inscribed in white ink on the point and in black ink on the pearl shell back. 'Friendly' inscribed in pencil on the shank.
Event Date 26/2/2014
Author: Lucie Carreau

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Context (Display)
Exhibited: 'Chiefs & Governors: Art and power in Fiji', Cambridge MAA, 7 June 2013 - 19 April 2014.
Event Date 25/4/2014
Author: Remke van der Velden

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Conservation (Assessment Only)
CON.2015.2094 | Assessment Only
Event Date 7/12/2015
Author: rah99

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Context (Display)
Exhibited: on display in the Fiji case (31), Maudslay Hall, from 1990 onwards with exception of exhibitions listed below.

Exhibited: 'Chiefs & Governors: Art and power in Fiji', Cambridge MAA, 7 June 2013 - 19 April 2014.

Exhibited: "Polynésie: arts et divinités 1760-1860", Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, 17 June 2008 - 14 September 2008.

Exhibited: "Pacific Encounters", Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, May 2006-August 2006.
Event Date 17/9/2015
Author: Rachel Hand

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Description (CMS Description)
Hook
Fish hook. The shank is formed of a piece of whalebone with a back of pearl shell. the point of the hook is carved from a piece of tortoise shell.
There is a cord of plant fibre attached.
Event Date 7/12/2016
Author: maa

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Conservation ()
CON.2013.37 |
Event Date 1/3/2016
Author: maa