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THBPre-Contact Hawaiian Bone Fish Hooks, ex-Galerie Flak
Lot 137a
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Artemis Gallery
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Louisville, CO 80027
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Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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- Lot Description
Polynesia, Hawaii, pre-European contact period, ca. 15th to 17th century CE. A collection of fourteen human bone fishhooks, of the type HT4 (see below), each with a distinctive protruding knob at a right angle to the shank and a pointed or triangular shank. They vary in size, with some carved more expertly than others. Fishhooks in ancient Hawaii were made of a variety of materials - pig and dog bone, pearl shell, turtle shell, teeth - but towards the end of the pre-contact period, when these were made, it had become common to make them from human bone. These were prized for their size and strength, believed to have the power of the deceased. In fact, chiefs would go to considerable lengths to hide their bodies so that their bones could not be stolen and made into fishhooks! Comes nicely displayed in a wooden shadow box with a glass front. Size: 1.25" W (3.2 cm); size of shadow box: 10" W x 7.6" H (25.4 cm x 19.3 cm)
For the typology of Hawaiian fishhooks, see Sinoto, Yosihiko H. "Chronology of Hawaiian Fishhooks", The Journal of the Polynesian Society, Vol. 71, No. 2 (June, 1962), pp. 162-166.
Provenance: ex-private Maui, Hawaii, USA collection; ex-Leo Fortress collection, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, ex-Galerie Flak, Parisw
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#150478Two are missing their shanks. Others have a few tiny losses from the peripheries, but most have their shapes well preserved with rich patina on all surfaces.Condition
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