Context (CMS Context)
Labels & inscriptions: a small label attached to the object reads: 'BEASLEY COLLECTION / SOLOMON GROUP / MALA / 3127' on one side and 'L.P. ROBIN / COLLECTION' on the other. '54.315 B' added in blue pen on the label. '54.315 B' inscribed in black ink on the object.
Event Date 14/12/2016
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (CMS Descriptions)
Fish-hook of turtle shell. A piece of mother-of-pearl carved in the shape of a fish/dolphin/shark has been attached to the back and tied on with plant fibre. A hackle formed of two tassels of red and blue glass beads is tied to the lower part of the shank.
Event Date 14/12/2016
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (CMS Context)
The 2006 Crowther Beynon report by Lucie Carreau, 'The H.G. Beasley collection of Pacific artefacts in the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Vol. II Objects, notes:
Bought from the Melanesian Mission Church, Westminster, 5.9.1932. Formerly in the L.P. Robin collection, a missionary on the island prior to 1900. Beasley No. 3127.
Event Date 14/12/2016
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (CMS Descriptions)
Catalogue card notes in blue ink, handwritten, '5 tortoise shell fish hooks with mother of pearl or plain white shell weights in the form of fish. C,D & E - completely stylised. All but E have short strings of red, white or blue beads in various combinations attached to the binding which binds the weight to the shank'.
Event Date 14/12/2016
Author: Lucie Carreau