New Britain fish-head pair

Source term: Schwirrholz

A fish's head becomes engineering here. On the plainer of the two blades the fish's eye is the cord hole — the line runs straight through the socket where the eye should be. On its more elaborate twin the eye is left whole and the line bites instead at a pair of notches cut into the edge. Both keep their red paint and the same chain-and-zigzag banding running the length of the body.

Anstelle des Auges Loch zum Durchziehen des Fadens.

In place of the eye is a hole for passing the cord through.

Germanisches Nationalmuseum, catalogue description, MIR 1283

Particulars

Object

Two closely related wooden blades with chain-and-zigzag carving and stylized fish-head ends; one uses an eye-hole, the other paired binding notches.

Function

Not recorded.