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Fish Trap

Object Number:37-22-175
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Sherbro
Provenience: Sierra Leone
Sherbro Island
Sitia Chiefdom
Section:African
Height: 57 cm
Outside Diameter:23 cm
Credit Line:Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937
Other Number:20 - Collector Number
CG2017-3-16 - Found in Collection Number

Description

For material and construction cf. 37-22-173; for shape cf. -174. The part containing the openingis, like the corresponding part of -173, made of short lengths of midrib fastened at right angles to the long splints, and the funnel is near the edge. Employment like -174, -176.

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