Shark Hook

Unidentified maker (Solomon Islands)

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collected about 1837-1855

Wood, cord, glue

Overall: 11 1/4 in. (28.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Captain Worthen Hall and Polly D. Lovewell Hall

13.2.621

Geography

Place Made: Solomon Islands, Melanesia, Oceania

Period

19th century

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Hunting and Fishing

Research Area

Oceania

Not on view

Course History

Anthropology 50.34, Native American and Indigenous Studies 30.28, Peoples of Oceania, Brinker Ferguson, Spring 2024

Provenance

Source unknown, in the Dartmouth College Museum collection by the late 19th century; probably collected by the Whaling Captain Worthen Hall (1802-1887), Croydon, New Hampshire [who sailed with his wife Polly D. Lovewell Hall (1807-1886) and his daughter], 1837-1955; given to his daughter, Mary Elizabeth Hall Hubbard (1849-about 1889), Croydon, New Hampshire [to be credited as a gift from her parents]; bequeathed to present collection, 1889; catalogued, 1913.

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