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Details
a Samoa fish hook
Carved from a single piece of wood of V-form, the wooden point with plaited coconut-fibre lashing
23cm. long
Carved from a single piece of wood of V-form, the wooden point with plaited coconut-fibre lashing
23cm. long
Provenance
Rev. Henry Gee, a missionary who served in Samoa at Savaii, Malava, Apia and Saluafata; retired in 1864 due to ill health; died in Cambridgeshire in 1901.