Wooden needles for mending nets

2013.241.2039

Wooden needles for mending nets

Object, Fabric Piercing Tool, Sewing Needle

Fishing gear. Collection of twelve wooden tools:
(A) Eight wooden needles for mending nets, making and repairing bait bag netting: snowshoe-shaped implements with U-shaped end, closed tangs, and pointed ends.
(B) Net needle: wood with large rectangular eye hole.
(C) Wood rectangle with hole in the middle and a loop of rope through two other holes: lobster fishing assemby that keeps the line from getting tangled.
(D and E) Two wood implements that come to a smooth point.