Hook
Item number 1922.953 A-C from the MAA: University of Cambridge.
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Description
Three bent wood hooks with bone barbs lashed on with bark. The hooks have the remains of sinew leaders on the lower arm. A) B) are halibut hooks, C) is a cod hook.; Good.
Context
Exhibited: A-C were loaned to the Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby in 'Smoking Coasts and Ice-bound Seas, Cook's Voyage to the Arctic' Feb- November 2008.Sarah Stones illustration (Sketchbook II:42), which could depict one of 1922.953 A-B (see Kaeppler (2011) above), also appears in Force Force Art and Artefacts of the 18th Century: Objects in the Leverian Museum As Painted by Sarah Stone (1968:161).Exhibited: On loan to 'Ships, Clock Stars: the Quest for Longitude', at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 11 July 2014- 4 January 2015; Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC: April 2015 September 2015; Adler Planetarium, Chicago: November 2015 March 2016; Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney: Nov 2016 March 2017
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada
- Received from Cook Collection, Ashton Lever ?, Leverian Museum ?, James Parkinson ?, John Rowe ?, Arthur Howe Holdsworth, Widdicombe House Collection and Louis C.G Clarke during 1922
What
- Name
- Hook
- Identification Number
- 1922.953 A-C
- Type of Item
- hook
- Material
- hemlock wood ?, bone and bark
Where
- Holding Institution
- MAA: University of Cambridge
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
Who
- Culture
- Nuu-chah-nulth
- Received from
- Cook Collection, Ashton Lever ?, Leverian Museum ?, James Parkinson ?, John Rowe ?, Arthur Howe Holdsworth, Widdicombe House Collection and Louis C.G Clarke
When
- Acquisition Date
- during 1922
Other
- Keyword
- Fishing
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