matau (fish hook) - Maori artefacts
71 item(s) found, 1-50 shown:
Early 19th century Maori bone shank from a trolling hook, with hour glass hole and bevelled end. Length 8 cm7
Three bone sections from Maori fishing hooks.
Contact period Maori trolling fish hook (Pa Kahawai) . Wooden shank, paua shell laminate, inner barbed bone point. Lashed snood, no line. Length 11 cm
Contact period Maori trolling fish hook (Pa Kahawai) . Wooden shank, paua shell laminate, with metal point. Lashed snood, no line. Length 10 cm
Early contact period Maori shell one piece 'U'shaped hook with inner barbed point. Found in Waimarama in the Chatham Islands. Length 3 cm Webster no. 1248
Early contact period Maori bone one piece U' shaped hook with inner and outer barbed point and all over outer serrations. Found in Waimarama in the Chatham Islands. Length 3 cm Webster no. 1247
Contact period Maori bone one-piece 'U' shaped hook, with outer serrations. Width 6.5 cm9
Unique and rare Maori trolling fish hook (Pa Kahawai) . Bone shank, paua shell laminate, inner and outer barbed bone point. Lashed snood and line. Length 12 cm (excluding line)
Contact period Maori trolling hook (Pa Kahawai) dark wooden shank, paua shell laminate, inner barbed bone point. Lashed snood and line. Length 12 cm (excluding line)
Late 18th century period Maori composite fish hook. Wooden shank limb with serrated and inner barbed bone point. Lashed snood and line. Length 8 cm (excluding line)
Early contact period Maori one-piece 'U' shaped bone fishing hook. Width 4 cm0
Late 18th century Maori one-piece fish hook, made of one piece of wood. Length 10 cm
Contact period Maori trolling fish hook (Pa Kahawai) . Wooden shank, paua shell laminate. Inner barbed bone point. Lashed snood and line. Length 10 cm (excluding line)
Contact period Maori trolling fish hook (Pa Kahawai) . Wooden shank, paua shell laminate. Inner barbed bone point. Lashed snood and line. Length 10.5 cm (excluding line)
Rare contact period Maori trolling fish hook (Pa Kahawai) . This hook has no wooden shank and is therefore an older pa kahawai. Paua point. Lashed snood and line. Length 7 cm (excluding line)
Rare contact period Maori trolling fish hook (Pa Kahawai) . This hook has no wooden shank and is therefore an older pa kahawai. Serrated paua point. Lashed snood and line. Length 11 cm (excluding line)
Contact period Maori trolling fish hook (Pa Kahawai) . Wooden shank, paua shell laminate. Lashed snood and line. Inner barbed bone point. Length 9 cm (excluding line)
Contact period Maori trolling fish hook (Pa Kahawai) . Wooden shank, paua shell laminate, inner barbed bone point. Lashed snood, no line. Length 9 cm
Partial early contact period Maori trolling fish hook (Pa Kahawai) . This hook has no wooden shank so is therefore an older pa kahawai as Maori figured out that paua shell alone was too thin to form strong shanks that could cope with the strain.…
Contact period Maori trolling fish hook (Pa Kahawai) . Wooden shank, paua shell laminate, inner barbed bone point. Lashed snood, no line. Length 10 cm
Contact period Maori trolling fish hook (Pa Kahawai) . Wooden shank, paua shell laminate. Inner barbed bone point. Some feather fibre fragments in lashed snood point. Lashed snood and small portion of line. Length 9 cm (excluding line)
Contact period Maori trolling fish hook (Pa Kahawai) . Wooden shank, paua shell laminate, inner barbed bone point. Lashed snood and line. Length 9.5 cm
Early 19th century contact period Maori trolling fish hook (Pa Kahawai) . Metal shank and point with paua shell laminate. Lashed snood and line. Length 11 cm (excluding line) 5
Early 19th century Maori fishing hook metal 'U' shaped point with lashed snood, line has broken off. Length 13 cm (excluding line)
Late 18th century Maori composite hook. Wooden shank limb with a large serrated barbed bone point. Lashed snood and line. Length 12 cm (excluding line)
18th century rare Maori fish hook (Matau) . Dark wooden shank that is extended to form the point limb, no point. Carved spirals on the shank. Lashed snood, no line. Length 19 cm
18th century rare Maori fish hook (Matau) wooden shank that is extended to form the point limb with a short barbed bone point. Lashed snood and line. Length 11 cm (excluding line)
Contact period Maori shark hook. Metal 'U' shaped point lashed with flax fibre snood and line. Length 17 cm (excluding line)
Early contact period Maori trolling fish hook (Pa Kahawai) . Wooden shank, paua shell laminate, inner barbed bone point. Lashed snood and line. Length 13 cm (excluding line)
Late 18th century period Maori composite shark hook. Wooden shank limb with serrated and inner barbed bone point. Lashed snood and line. Length 11 cm (excluding line) 8
Contact period Maori trolling fish hook (Pa Kahawai) . Wooden shank, paua shell laminate, inner barbed bone point. Lashed snood and line. Length 11 cm (excluding line)
Rare pre-European Maori barracuda hook (Okooko) . Straight large shank with a serrated bone point. An antero-posterior hole is in the shank where the line goes through and runs along a groove. Length 13 cm.
A Maori black basalt stone toki adze of typical Duff type 2b shape with polished surfaces but with hammer-dressing still visible to the sides and poll. Note; large chip from R/H side. Found at Otatara, Southland in the 1950s. Length 10.2 cm. Width 4.8 cm.…
An iron trade Tomahawk head. Length 11.8 cm. Width 8 cm, sold together with two shaped nail fish hooks and a larger shaped nail hook. Recovered dune /beach Gisborne area
A bone and wood carved Replica of a traditional Maori fish hook, incised 'R' to the shank. Length 18 cm
Late 18th century composite shark hook. Wooden shank limb with small serrated bone point. Lashed snood and line. Length 13 cm (excluding line) . Webster collection no. 382.
Late 18th century composite shark hook. Full bodied wooden shank limb with beautifully carved snood knob, and small bone point. Lashed snood and line. Length 16 cm (excluding line) . Webster collection no. 521.
Pa Kahawai and fishing lure, a trolling lure with subtly curved wooden shank and bone hook, paua shell inlay missing. L.13 cm
Pounamu Hei Matu, fish hook pendant in translucent tangiwai L.2.8 cm
Contact period Maori subcircular one-piece bone fish hook, with serrations and small serrated knobs on outer edge of hook. Lashed snood and line. Width 7 cm. Webster collection no. 486
Early contact period Maori Barbed shell point Off a composite fishing hook, broken into two pieces. Length 6 cm. Webster collection no. 1454
Pre-European Maori Barracuda hook (Okooko). Straight thick shank with an unbarbed bone point which is rendered more secure by a small wooden wedge driven through a hole, the shank has an outer snood knob. Length 15 cm
Contact period Maori shark hook. Metal 'U' shaped point lashed with flax fibre snood and line (broken Off). Width 4.5 cm
Contact period Maori shark hook. Metal 'U' shaped point lashed with flax fibre snood and line. Width 6 cm
Early 19th century Maori shark hook. Metal 'U' shaped point with flax fibre snood and line. Length 8 cm. Width 6 cm (excluding line). Webster collection no. 1489?
Late 18th century period Maori composite shark hook. Wooden shank limb with serrated bone point. Lashed snood and line. Length 11 cm (excluding line). Webster collection no. 602
Late 18th century period Maori composite shark hook. Wooden shank limb with bone point. Lashed snood and line. Length 10 cm (excluding line). Webster collection no. 1075
Late 18th century period Maori composite shark hook. Wooden shank limb with serrated bone point. Lashed snood and line. Length 14 cm (excluding line). Webster collection no. 246
Captain Cook Maori fish hook. Very rare fish hook from the Captain Cook collection, taken to England by Captain Cook, with Captain Cook label; provenance 'Ex Methodist Missy. Socy. Given to socy from Cassiobury Park Museum (Private) about 1900.…
18th century rare Maori fish hook (Matau). Wooden shank that is extended to form the point limb with a short bone point. Carved tiki face on bend. Lashed snood and line. Length 13 cm (excluding line). Webster collection no. 522
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