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Fish Hook Carved out of single pieces of dog, human, or whale bone, these small to medium sized hooks were crafted with multiple "barbs" to quickly snag the hunted fish, while preventing an easy escape. |
| Bait Container Known as "ipu le'i," containers such as these came in two types; one made of a wooden bowl and a gourd cover (not shown) and another made of two seperate gourds. A small net covering the larger gourd base and fixed to holes in the smaller gourd cover was used to fasten the two pieces together. |
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Bait Mortar Small stone mortars (made of visicular basalt, reef rock, or close grained basalt) such as these were commonly combined with small wooden pestles for use in the pounding, grinding, and mixing of squid ink bait and other substances. |
| Plummet Sinker A specialized Hawaiian type of sinker, these instruments made their place among the Hawaiian fisherman's arsenal by carrying fishing lines into the depths of the pacific. |
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