Fish Net
| Object Number: | 37-22-183 |
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| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Sherbro |
| Provenience: | Sierra Leone Sherbro Island |
| Section: | African |
| Materials: | Plant Fiber Wood |
| Length: | 106 cm |
| Credit Line: | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number: | 115 - Collector Number |
Description
Oblong bag of knotted netting used by men in fishing from canoes. The bag opens along one of the long sides. A flexible stick is fastened along each side of the opening. The fisherman in the bow of the canoe holds one of the sticks in each hand. When a school of small fish appears near the surface, he stretches the net open and plunges it, opening downward, into the water among the fishes. With a quick movement he then closes the bag by bringing one stick over the other and lifts his haul into the canoe.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| African Gallery (1990 - Aug 1995) | View Objects in Exhibition |
| African Gallery ( Aug 1995 - 11 Sep 2018) | View Objects in Exhibition |
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