Fishing Trap
37-22-173
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Sitia Chiefdom | Yoni
Curatorial Section: African
Object Number | 37-22-173 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Sherbro |
Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Sitia Chiefdom | Yoni |
Section | African |
Materials | Wood | Plant Material |
Description | Pawl tanggi toe bul = fish trap [with] openings two. Made [twined work] of midribs of palm leaflets, cylindrical in shape. The funnel-shaped openings, formed by short lengths of midribs turned inwards, allow a fish to enter but not to escape. Placed in a tidal stream, usually inan opening in a weir, to catch fishes moving either upstream with the flow or down with the ebb. See 37-22-174. |
Height | 33 cm |
Outside Diameter | 16 cm |
Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
Other Number | 133 - Collector Number |
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