Iron hook from Jarlshof, 800 - 1100 AD

Iron hook from Jarlshof, 800 - 1100 AD

Walker's detaching hook for pit cages

Humble's detaching hook for pit cages

Hook of iron, S-shaped with serpent design: Tibet, early 20th century AD

Fish-hook of pearl shell with a short line attached: Oceania, Melanesia, Vanuatu, Aneityum, late 19th century

Hook or lure for fish trap (noboi), model, made of plant fibre and weighted with stone: Oceania, Melanesia, Vanuatu, Aneityum, late 19th century.

Straight thick barracuda hook of wood, much weathered, with barb formed from an early imported nail, grooved at top for attachment of a line: New Zealand, Māori

Hook pendant of grey green nephrite with figure-of-eight suspension hole, traditionally worn by a learned Māori man: New Zealand, Māori, late 19th to early 20th century

Hook of light brown wood with barb forming an acute angle with the shank, the lower extremity of which is carved as a human head: Melanesia, New Guinea, Trobriand Islands

Garment hook of bronze inlaid with silver and gold, with incised design of a phoenix and dragon's head terminal: China, late Eastern Han Dynasty, c. 3rd century AD

Silver-gilt hook from the nécessaire de voyage or travelling service assembled by Martin-Guillaume Biennais for Napoleon's sister, the Princess Pauline Borghese, possibly at the time of her marriage to Prince Camillo Borghese in 1803: French, Paris, c. 1800 - 1803, bequeathed to Alexander, 10th Duke of Hamilton, in 1825

Model of a hunting hook carved from walrus ivory, part of a group with models of a kayak, hunter, harpoons and rifle: North America, Canada, Baffin Island, Cape Dorset, Inuit, possibly by Peter Pitsulak, collected by John N.S. Buchan, 1938 - 1939

Iron reaping hook from a female burial in a stone-lined pit grave [5], Westness, Orkney, 850 - 950 AD

Hookah, copper alloy, in seven parts including base, stem, hose, bracket, screw, charcoal cup with lid and part of original cardboard box: Yemen, 1970 - 1982