A rare contact period Maori trolling fish hook (Pa Kahawai). This hook has no wooden shank and is therefore an older pa kahawai as later Maori figured out that paua shell alone was too thin to form strong shanks that could cope with the strain. Also this hook has a paua shell point that has an outer barb. Lashed snood and line. Length 7.5 cm (excluding line). Webster Collection no. 1077.