gaung'akao height of hook 8in (20cm) Provenance Australian Private Collection Taylor A. Dale, Santa Fe Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection, Honolulu Important California Private Collection Published Kaeppler, Adrienne, Polynesia - The Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection of Polynesian Art, University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2010, fig. 227 According to Kaeppler (ibid., p. 272), "Ritual hooks were used by the priest of the island to invoke the gods before fishing and were considered taboo." Finely carved in hard dark brown wood with tightly-woven sennit fiber attached and forming a loop at the top; wear and patina indicative of significant age and cultural use.
gaung'akao height of hook 8in (20cm) Provenance Australian Private Collection Taylor A. Dale, Santa Fe Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection, Honolulu Important California Private Collection Published Kaeppler, Adrienne, Polynesia - The Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection of Polynesian Art, University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2010, fig. 227 According to Kaeppler (ibid., p. 272), "Ritual hooks were used by the priest of the island to invoke the gods before fishing and were considered taboo." Finely carved in hard dark brown wood with tightly-woven sennit fiber attached and forming a loop at the top; wear and patina indicative of significant age and cultural use.
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