Fishing Trap
37-22-191
From: Sierra Leone
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-191 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Bamboo | Tin | Wood |
| Description | Grid of wide splints from midrib of raphia palm leaves. Made in three sections to one of which is attached a tin can containing a piece of bottle glass, etc., ["medicine" to ensure the efficacy of the trap]. Used in the marshes. |
| Length | 55 cm |
| Width | 30 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 78 - Collector Number |
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