Fishing Trap
37-22-174
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Sitia Chiefdom | Yoni
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-174 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Sitia Chiefdom | Yoni |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Fiber |
| Description | For construction, cf. 37-22-172. Instead of a trap in one side, this is open at one end, the long splints [warp] being bent back and making by means of the transverse splints [weft], which form a spiral decreasing continuously in diameter, a funnel-shaped interior opening surrounded by the pointed ends of the warp splints. Such traps are set in openings in weirs placed across a tidal stream, or a small inlet, with the opening turned downstream when the tide is flowing or upstream when it is ebbing. See 37-22-173, 175. |
| Height | 59 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 17 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 19 - Collector Number |
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