Cantonese Opera Hook

Used as a prop in Cantonese opera, as a clothing hook.

Donated as part of a collection of Cantonese opera props used by the Jin Wah Sing Musical Association.

Cantonese opera prop representing a clothing hook. Brown wooden object with eight upward prongs around a cylindrical central shaft, ending in a rounded base from which the eight prongs, evenly spaced, protrude upwards from the shaft at a ninety-five degree angle. A length of white-yellow cotton cord is looped through a hole in the top of the shaft.