Lot Essay
Cf. Phelps, Steven, Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas, The James Hooper Collection, London, 1976, p.215, fig.967 for a similar bolas attributed to Nauru
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A PACIFIC BOLAS AND NINE FISH HOOKS
The drop-shaped bolas of white tridacna-shell, pierced for suspension, on long length of twisted fibre; two Tahiti fish hooks with pearl-shell barbs and fibre-bound snoods; a Tahiti hook with bone barb secured to the bone shank with black gum; a Hawaii turtle-shell hook; a bone hook, possibly Hawaii; a Cook Islands pearl-shell hook; another perhaps from the Loyalty Islands; and two others
2cm. to 13cm. long (10)
The drop-shaped bolas of white tridacna-shell, pierced for suspension, on long length of twisted fibre; two Tahiti fish hooks with pearl-shell barbs and fibre-bound snoods; a Tahiti hook with bone barb secured to the bone shank with black gum; a Hawaii turtle-shell hook; a bone hook, possibly Hawaii; a Cook Islands pearl-shell hook; another perhaps from the Loyalty Islands; and two others
2cm. to 13cm. long (10)
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