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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