fishing-net
- Museum number
- Af1972,14.1
- Description
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Fishing-net (with floats and weights) made of twine, string, wood, clay.
- Production date
- 1957-1972 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 70 centimetres
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Width: 324 centimetres
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Depth: 2.40 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1983-1986, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 9), 'Bemba'
- Acquisition date
- 1972
- Acquisition notes
- Af1972,14.1 to 379 is a field collection made by Father J J Corbeil among the Bemba and related peoples in north-east Zambia between 1957 and 1972. See AOA Ethdoc 104 for detailed notes on the collection by Margret Carey; the local names, functions and findspot are given in the Register (not transcribed on the database).
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1972,14.1