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£75
An Oceanic Polynesian barbed fishing spear, 149cm, owners label "Captain Cooks voyage to Tonga, (Fish spear), bought in Whitby 1973", together with two steel tipped spears, 215cm (3)
Captain Cook first landed in the Tongan islands on 2 October 1773, during his second Pacific voyage. In 1774 he returned for four days and received such a warm welcome that he named Tonga the “Friendly Islands”.
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