Eight pearl shell fish hooks or points
Eight pearl shell fish hooks or points

AUA ISLAND AND SAMOA

細節
Eight pearl shell fish hooks or points
Aua Island and Samoa
The Samoan lure hook with pearl shell shank and barb, cloth hackle and twisted fibre snood on long length of plaited coconut fibre; and seven small trochus shell fish hooks from Aua Island, old label
l.8cm. to 11cm. long (8)
來源
Captain George Pitt-Rivers, Farnham, Dorset, for the Aua hooks

拍品專文

The small fish hooks from Aua Island were probably collected by Captain George Pitt-Rivers, grandson of the General, who lived there for two years between the Wars