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1799.02.0019 :: fiskkrok, krok

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"Stor metkrok, af sköldpadd och ben". Draget flätat av växtfiber.

Söderström beskriver kroken som en "Tongan fishing implement of a well-known Polynesian type, the full name of which in this case ought to be a "large composite trolling hook". The hook is of the ordinary Tongan type that Beasley depicts and descibes on pp. 20-21 in his book. Accordingly, it has a shank of "close-grained whalebone", with a piece of dark-coloured mother-of-pearl let in at the back. The hook itself is barbed, and consists of two pieces of turtle shell tied together. These are set side by side, and at the same time lashed to the shank by means of two bands of plaited oloná fibre (Touchardia latifolia), affixed in two places in the manner seen in the figure. At the bottom is attached a tassel of the same material. Söderström sid 40 ff.

Kroken har en text på valbenet, troligen skriven av Sparrman själv "Krok från Otahite uti imitation af... ". Resterande text är otydlig men skall troligen lyda "en fisk". Som framgår har Sparrman tillskrivit ursprungsorten till Tahiti. Dock efterbestämd av Söderström till Tonga.

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