Fish hook
(early 20th century)
- Medium
- shell, turtle shell, glass (beads), fibre
- Measurements
- 9.2 × 1.5 × 2.4 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Solomon Islands
- Accession Number
- O118-1979
- Department
- Pacific Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented through The Art Foundation of Victoria in memory of Stanley Gordon Moriarty by Jean McKay Moriarty, Fellow, 1979
© the artists
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation
- Gallery location
- Not on display
- Physical description
- Hook carved from tortoise shell attached to a cut section of a shell, with fibre cord. At one end of the fibre are two red and two blue beads.
