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Arts and Crafts of the Cook Islands

Figure 153.—Wooden hooks. a, roughly made with two shank knobs (1, 1) and straight point limb (2) without inward curve; length, 160 mm. (E. L. Gruning coll.). b, ornamental hook (Fuller coll. 330): 1, snood lashed around shank knob; 2, 2, barb-like projections on shank limb and point piece; 3, four cleatlike projections; 4, four rounded knobs in midline of outer side surface, with notched raised ridges (5) extending between them; 6, point piece with carved triangular projection at outer bend; 7…

Figure 153.—Wooden hooks. a, roughly made with two shank knobs (1, 1) and straight point limb (2) without inward curve; length, 160 mm. (E. L. Gruning coll.). b, ornamental hook (Fuller coll. 330): 1, snood lashed around shank knob; 2, 2, barb-like projections on shank limb and point piece; 3, four cleatlike projections; 4, four rounded knobs in midline of outer side surface, with notched raised ridges (5) extending between them; 6, point piece with carved triangular projection at outer bend; 7, join between point piece and point limb, covered with fish skin and lashed with two sets of sennit in transverse turns. Beasley gives measurements as 22.5 inches long and greatest width, 13.5 inches.

Figure 153.—Wooden hooks. a, roughly made with two shank knobs (1, 1) and straight point limb (2) without inward curve; length, 160 mm. (E. L. Gruning coll.). b, ornamental hook (Fuller coll. 330): 1, snood lashed around shank knob; 2, 2, barb-like projections on shank limb and point piece; 3, four cleatlike projections; 4, four rounded knobs in midline of outer side surface, with notched raised ridges (5) extending between them; 6, point piece with carved triangular projection at outer bend; 7, join between point piece and point limb, covered with fish skin and lashed with two sets of sennit in transverse turns. Beasley gives measurements as 22.5 inches long and greatest width, 13.5 inches.