Fishing & Hunting series

analysing the activities of a nineteenth-century collector

This series is only listed in the Black Book, they appear to have been displayed in Case 42 at Bethnal Green and South Kensington Museums.

Black book number	PRM accession number	Black book entry
Black 1696	1884.11.67	Case 42 1696 Artificial fish and two ivory fish hooks and line of whale bone Esquimaux
Black 1697	1884.11.68	Case 42 1697 Line of whale bone Esquimaux
Black 1698	1884.11.15	Case 42 1698 Artificial fish of walrus ivory Esquimaux
Black 1699	1884.11.69	Case 42 1699 Plaited line made of deer sinew Esquimaux Obtd by Sir E Belcher
Black 1700	1884.11.18, 71, 72	Case 42 1700 Artificial fish, fish hook, stone sinker and attaching piece with whale bone line Esquimaux Obtd by Sir E Belcher
Black 1701 ?	1884.11.70	Case 42 1701 Line of deer sinew Esquimaux
Black 1702	Not matched	1702 Case 42 Line of leather with ivory buttons carved in the form of animal's heads Esquimaux
Black 1703	1884.140.947-8	Case 42 1703 Snares (2) whalebone for taking Alca-Psitica or Greenland parrot Obtd by Sir E Belcher AdditionalBlack book entry - Alca. A genus of short-winged sea birds
Black 1704-1705	1884.140.944-945	Case 42 1704 and 1705 Nets (2) deer sinew used to capture reindeer and small game Brought from Icy Cape 1826 Sir E Belcher
Black 1706	1884.140.619	Case 42 1706 Net whalebone used for salmon fishing. Brought from Icy Cape 1826 Sir E Belcher
Black 1707	1884.11.24	Case 42 1707 Fish hook mother o' pearl Marquesas
Black 1708	1884.11.25	Case 42 1708 Wooden fish hooks with bone points Location not stated
Black 1708	1884.11.26	Case 42 1708 Wooden fish hooks with bone points Location not stated
Black 1709	1884.11.28	Case 42 1709 Fish hook with bone point ?New Zealand
Black 1710	1884.11.29 .11884.11.29 .2	Case 42 1710 Fish hooks (3) Wood and bone line of sennit Locality not stated Added Black book entry - Sennet better Sennit (From 'sevin' and knit 'Naut') Flat braided cordage used for various purposes and formed by plaiting rope yards or spun yarn together
Black 1711	1884.11.30	Case 42 1711 'Fish hook made of the bone of human finger South Sea Island
Black 1712	1884.77.15	Case 42 1712 Hook tortoiseshell used for extracting Betel nut Murray Island
Black 1713	Not matched	1713 Case 42 Shell hook with stone sinker and line of sennit Locality not stated
Black 1714	1884.11.31	Case 42 1714 Fish hook line of sennit ?Society Islands Added Black book entry - Samoa
Black 1715	Not matched	1715 Case 42 Fish hook and line Friendly Isles
Black 1716	1884.11.78	Case 42 1716 Fish hook said to be from Nootka Sound Added Black book entry - Tonga Ids
Black 1717	[1884.11.32]	Case 42 1717 Fish hook pearl oyster bone point South Sea Islands New Zealand
Black 1718	1884.11.33	Case 42 1718 Fish hook pearl oyster bone point red black and white shell beads marked New Zealand Solomon Is
Black 1719	1884.11.34	Case 42 1719 Fish hook and line bone point Said to be from New Zealand
Black 1720	1884.11.35	Case 42 1720 Fish hook and line pearl oyster point of oyster shell New Zealand
Black 1721	1884.11.36	Case 42 1721 Fish hook wood faced with pearl oyster iron point New Zealand
Black 1722	1884.11.37	Case 42 1722 and 1723 Fish hooks pearl oyster with line iron points N Zealand
Black 1723	1884.11.38	Case 42 1722 and 1723 Fish hooks pearl oyster with line iron points N Zealand
Black 1724	Not matched	Case 42 1724 and 1725 Fish hooks (2) bone and shell ?Marquesas
Black 1725	1884.11.39 .11884.11.39 .2	Case 42 1724 and 1725 Fish hooks (2) bone and shell ?Marquesas
Black 1726	1884.11.40	Case 42 1726 Fish hook tortoise shell Locality not known
Black 1727	1884.11.41-44	Case 42 1727 Card cont? [sic] 4 bronze fish hooks probably Roman found in excavations in London
Black 1728	Not matched	Case 42 1728 Fish hooks (2) bronze Roman (in glass case)
Black 1729	1884.11.45	Case 42 1729 Fish hook iron found in excavations at Walthamstow
Black 1730	1884.11.46	Fishing & Hunting Materials [p. 74] C[ase] 42. 1730. Fish hook, large, iron. Nupi W. Africa. [insert] 1884.11.46 [end insert].
Black book page 73a [Ag 272]	1884.20.55	Ag 272 19.4.74 [sic] Copper harpoon point barbed New Guinea
Black book page 73a [Ag 272]	1884.140.622	Ag 272 7.3.74 [1 of] Five Fijian fishing nets, one ticketed. Fijian women's mountain stream fishing net for prawn
Black book page 73a [Ag 5594]	1884.11.73	Ag 5594 5.9.76 Chinese fishing line
Black book page 73a [Ag 1848]	Not matched	Ag 1848 Feb 75 Long fishing net
Black book page 73a [Ag 272]	Not matched	Ag 272 7.3.74 Fijian prawn trap
Black book page 73a [Ag 272]	Not matched	Ag 272 19.4.74 Fijian fish hook and line
Black book page 73a [Ag 272]	Not matched	Ag 272 19.4.74 Three Fiji grass combs

AP, March 2011.

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