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Item X 12104 Hook. Daly River, Fitzmaurice, Northern Territory, Australia. before 1900

Physical Description

A bone fish hook and line. A section of bone has a small pointed barb wound with vegetable fibre string and set in beeswax attached to one end.The line is light rope attached to vegetable fibre string wound around the other end of the bone.

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Object/Medium

Hook
Maker

Unknown
Locality

Daly River, Fitzmaurice, Northern Territory, Australia
Date Produced

before 1900
Object Measurements

145 mm (Length), 55 mm (Width), 30 mm (Height)
Keywords

Fishing
Collection Names

C. French 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 12104 Hook. Daly River, Fitzmaurice, Northern Territory, Australia. before 1900

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Date Produced

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Type of item

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Category

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