Description (Labels & Markings)
'Z 31632' inscribed in black ink on the body of the fish-hook. An old postcard to which the fish-hook used to be tied is kept in the same box and reads: 'Mother o' Pearl hooks for casting and jerking the fish into the canoe'.
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Related Documents)
Z 31630- 3 were attached by cotton thread to a postcard addressed to 'Miss Edgell/ Martham' and on the reverse handwritten details of the three fish hooks, with the curved hook on the far left and far right with the two trolling hooks in the centre, describing 'Mother of pearl --- --- --- ---/ [and then from left to right] hooks trailed in the _____/ for after/ 2 Mother O'Pearl hooks for casting and fishing the fish in the Canoe/ catching fish a [? a C---- water]'.
All four hooks now removed from the card.
Event Date
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 31632: 'Mother of pearl Bonito hook, for casting + jerking the fish into the canoe'.
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Related Documents)
This object is listed in a letter sent by Reverend Edgell to the Museum, now in the archives (OA2/1/2) - it is listed as no.2: 'Mother o’ pearl Bonito hook for casting and jerking the fish into the canoe'.
Event Date 12/1898
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (References)
Illustrated in Lucie Carreau. 2016. Collections from the Solomon Islands. Cambridge: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.13275, p.35.
Event Date 2016
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Fish-hook of mother of pearl, in one piece. The back shaped as a fish, the head of the fish forming a barb. Straight point.
Event Date 29/3/2016
Author: Lucie Carreau

Conservation (Assessment Only)
CON.2017.3990 | Assessment Only
Event Date 29/11/2017
Author: Kirstie Williams