Fish Net

68-7-86

From: New Guinea | Kiriwina (uncertain) | Dobu (uncertain) | Trobriand Islands

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 68-7-86
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Guinea | Kiriwina (uncertain) | Dobu (uncertain) | Trobriand Islands
Date Made 1919-1925
Section Oceanian
Materials Plant Fiber | Shell | Wood
Description

Triangular wooden floats across top. Perforated shell weights along bottom. Larger wooden flats at each end. Larger cowrie shell sinkers each end. Single fiber.

Length 254 cm
Credit Line Purchased from W. H. Marshall, 1968
Other Number 37 - Other Number

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