Fish-hook of copper bent into a half-hoop and barbed: Ancient Egyptian, Middle Egypt, Oxyrhynchus, Roman Period, 30 BC- 395 AD

Fish-hook with pearl shell shank, bone barb, twisted bast lashings and white feather beard: Polynesian, Tuvalu

Fish-hook with pearl shell shank, bone barb, twisted bast lashings and white feather beard: Polynesian, Tuvalu

Fish-hook of pearl shell: Polynesian, Tuvalu

Fish-hook with shank of pearl shell and barb of bone: Polynesian, Tuvalu

Fish-hook of possible human bone with a lure of plant fibre bound with cordage to a shank of stalactite: Micronesian, Republic of Kiribati, Banaba (Ocean) Island, early 19th century

Fish-hook of wood with inturned barb, lashing of coconut fibre, and short sinnet plait attached: Micronesia, Republic of Kiribati

Fish-hook with shank of rough pearl shell, long barb of trimmed pearl shell lashed on with sinnet, and hackle of frayed out pandanus fibre: Micronesian, Marshall Islands

Fish-hook with shank of rough pearl shell and hook also of pearl shell lashed with twine, made for tourists: Micronesian, Marshall Islands

Fish-hook with shank of rough pearl shell and hook also of pearl shell lashed with twine, made for tourists: Micronesian, Marshall Islands

Fish-hook with shank of pearl shell, barb of turtle shell lashed on, lure of white feathers attached, and long line of plaited sinnet: Polynesian, Tonga

Fish-hook, barb of turtle shell lashed on bone shank backed with pearl shell, lure of fibre tuft, with part of stout plaited line attached, collected by Captain Cook on last voyage: Pacific Peoples, Tonga, 1776 - 1779

Fish-hook made from the shank of bone: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Fish-hook comprising shank of white shell, turtleshell barb and plume of white feathers attached to line of plaited sinnet: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Fish-hook comprising shank of shell and turtle-shell barb attached to long sinnet line: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Shark fishing hook (matau hiimao) formed of casuarina wood, with attached looped line of coconut fibre wound round with sinnet: Oceania, French Polynesia, Tuamotu Islands, before 1895