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Maori still hook constructed from a crescent shaped piece of dark brown hardwood which has a slot carved in one end and a whalebone point inserted into it. This point is barbed both on the inside and outside of the curves and is lashed to the wooden shaft with a tight binding of a pale hara keke fibres. At the top of the shank the hook is attached too its line with an integrated snood of the same fibre.
These objects are only a part of our collections, of which there are more than 350,000 objects. This information comes from our collections database. Some of this is incomplete and there may be errors. This part of the website is also still under construction, so there may be some fields repeated or incorrectly formatted information.
The database sometimes uses language taken from historical documents to help research, which may now appear outdated and even offensive. The database also includes information on objects that are considered secret or sacred by some communities.
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