Hook, Australia, West Cape York

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Item X 101368 omong | Hook, Line. Aurukun, West Cape York, Queensland, Australia

Local Name

omong

Physical Description

A hook made of a bone point overwound with sinews encased in resin set at one end of a short section of wood attached to a length of vegetable fibre string. Vegetable fibre string is also wound around the bone hook.

More Information

Object/Medium

Hook, Line
Maker

Unknown
Locality

Aurukun, West Cape York, Queensland, Australia
Date Collected

/04/1936
Fully Extended

145 mm (Length), 60 mm (Width), 50 mm (Height)
Classification

Bunjilaka, Many nations, Working country
Date Made

before 1950
Maker

Not Recorded
Clan/Language Group

Wik-Mungkan
Place Made

Aurukun, Queensland, Australia
Indigenous Region

West Cape, Australia
Keywords

Fishing
Collection Names

Harry R. Balfour Collection
Type of item

Object
Discipline

Anthropology
Category

First Peoples
Collecting Areas

Australian Indigenous - Northern Australia and Queensland and Torres Strait Islands

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Item X 101368 omong | Hook, Line. Aurukun, West Cape York, Queensland, Australia

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Maker

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Place Made

Indigenous Region

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