Explores more than 250 fish hooks from the Pacific islands with color images, historical photographs, maps, and more. As comprehensive as it is visually impressive,
Fish Hooks of the Pacific Islands: Vol. II continues to explore fish hooks' practical and aesthetic function in communities where fishing is so central to the way of life. This book includes information about more than 250 fish hooks and related items, gathering new observations, research, color photographs, maps, and illustrations. A collaboration by private collectors all over the world, this volume will be an essential resource for scholars of Pacific Island art.