fishing-net

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Object Type
Museum number: Af1960,20.160
Description: Register 1960 Split palm fishing net, made from palm leaf midrib split to varying degrees of thickness.
Production ethnic group
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Oguta-Ibo; Found/Acquired: Niger, River; Found/Acquired: Oguta (?); Found/Acquired: Aguta
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 39.50 centimetres; Width: 82 centimetres; Depth: 21 centimetres
Curator's comments: Register 1960 Split palm fishing net, made from palm leaf midrib split to varying degrees of thickness. "A kind of fishing net made of midribs of the leaflets(?) of the Bamboo Palm. Raphia vinifera. Aguta. River Niger. Sir J Smallman Smith, KCMG. 1896." (AGUTA presumably OGUTA - IBQ PAA).
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1960
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Af1960,20.160
Conservation

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