Net
37-22-195
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-195 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Plant Fiber |
| Description | Knotted netting of rope made from oil palm leaflet fibres. Used in drives. Beaters drive the game into the net where the animals are despatched by the hunters, with harpoons of matchets [machetes]. In Sitia these nets are used in hunting antelopes, especially the small antelope, flitambo; on the mainland in hunting also bush pigs, etc. |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 31 - Collector Number |
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