Description (Labels & Markings)
'Z 31631' 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 & tortoise-shell hooks for catching fish trailed after a canoe in the water.'
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

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

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 31631: 'Mother of pearl + tortoise shell Bonito hook, trailed after a canoe in the water.'
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.1: 'Large mother o'Pearl & tortoise-shell hooks for catching bonito trailed after a canoe in the water.'
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)
Trolling fish-hook in two pieces: Body of pearl-shell carved in the shape of a fish with incised decoration on the back, and point of turtle-shell, lashed together with plant fibre.
Event Date 29/3/2016
Author: Lucie Carreau

Conservation (Remedial)
CON.2017.3991 | Remedial
Event Date 29/11/2017
Author: Kirstie Williams