Octopus Lure
2003-32-248
From: Society Islands
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 2003-32-248 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Society Islands |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Shell | Wood | Plant Fiber |
| Description | Hardwood stick, around one end of which is tied a rounded cluster of cowrie shell fragments. If complete it would have a fishhook at the end of an atttached cord. Exhibited at l'Exposition universelle de Paris 1900. |
| Length | 30 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1993.X.248 - Other Number | CIVIC1993.X.248 - Other Number |
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