Context (CMS Context)
Labels & inscriptions: ’23.93.D.’ inscribed in white ink on the object. A label in the box reads: ‘Hooks for Reef Fishing. BIA. San Cristoval’.
Event Date 22/11/2007
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
On catalogue card for 1923.93 A-E: '[one of] 5 fishhooks. [B] of mother of pearl made to represent [a] small fish. no barb is used as they are used for flying fish which bolt the bait and are not able to disgorge it.'
Event Date 22/11/2007
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Very small turtle shell fish hook with a very thin piece of turtle shell covering the body of the hook. Main body of the hook lens shaped with a semi-circular hook. [Heather Donoghue 13.06.2012]
Event Date 12/6/2013
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card 1 reads [handwritten in black ink:] '23.93 a.b.c.d.e Melanesia (Solomons & New Hebrides). Five fish-hooks [underlined]. a.b.c. [underlined] of mother of pearl made to represent small fish no barb is made as they are made for flying fish which bite the bait and are not able to disgorge it. From Ulawa [underlined] and Malaita [underlined] Ids. Solomon group. d. [underlined] made from Turtle shell. used for ['bonito' crossed out in black ink] reef fishing in San Christoval [sic]. Solomons. fr: Bia at N.W. end. e. [underlined] of Turtle shell used for Bonito and fish of same size and weight. now many seldom made as hooks of [word unclear] [?]make but come into unusual [illegible]. From [?]Oba [underlined] [sic ?Aoba now Ambae]. New Hebrides. (i.e. Leper's Id) but it is not certain that they are all made there. C & D. Rev. Wm Hy. Edgell.'; [later addition handwritten in black ball point:] 'Halaita'.

Catalogue card 2 reads [handwritten in black ball point:] '1923.93.A.E. Solomon Islands Ulawa. 5 fish hooks. "A" "C" "B" Edgell'. [Red circular sticker top right of card.]

This hook is mounted in a wooden box with glass front measuring 10.8cm long, 6 cm wide, 1.7 cm high along with Z 294 A-B, Z 295, Z 296 A-B. The number 1923.93 D has been mistranscribed as 1923.930 on the reverse of the wooden box, which lists the accession numbers in black ink. White label inside box handwritten in black ink reads 'Hooks for Reef Fishing. BIA [underlined]. San Cristoval [underlined]. [Heather Donoghue 13.06.2012]
Event Date 12/6/2013
Author: Heather Donoghue

Context (CMS Context)
Kept in a small box with (from left to right:) Z 296 A, Z 296 B, Z 295, Z 294 B, Z 294 A, 1923.93 D.
Event Date 20/3/2016
Author: Lucie Carreau