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Matau - fish hooks (2) early contact period; elaborately…
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Matau - fish hooks (2) early contact period; elaborately rendered one-piece bone fish-hook with double intertwined kaniwha 'Barbs'. End finely carved for line attachment. Inscribed in black ink: 'Web Col 1247'. Early contact period; elaborately rendered one-piece shell fish-hook. Inscribed in black ink: 'Web Col 1248'. Both hooks noted by Webster to have been found in Waimarama, Chatham Islands. Length 2.6 cm. Width 1.6 cm' length 2.8 cm. Width 2 cm.
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