gaung'akao height 14 1/2in (36.8cm) Provenance Australian Private Collection Taylor A. Dale, TAD Tribal Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico Private Collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico According to Adrienne Kaeppler, "Ritual hooks were used by the priest of the island to invoke the gods before fishing and were considered taboo." Polynesia - The Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection of Polynesian Art, University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2010, p. 272 Finely carved in light brown wood with fine, tightly-woven sennit fiber attached and forming a loop.
gaung'akao height 14 1/2in (36.8cm) Provenance Australian Private Collection Taylor A. Dale, TAD Tribal Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico Private Collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico According to Adrienne Kaeppler, "Ritual hooks were used by the priest of the island to invoke the gods before fishing and were considered taboo." Polynesia - The Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection of Polynesian Art, University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2010, p. 272 Finely carved in light brown wood with fine, tightly-woven sennit fiber attached and forming a loop.
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