- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Fishing net with globular pottery weights threaded around the open rim. [MJD 11/06/2009]
- Geographical reference
- West Bengal Odisha Sambalpur
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1932
- Date collected
- By 1932
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1932
- Materials and processes
- Material Net Textile, Material Pottery, Material String, Process Netted, Process Perforated, Process Tied, Process Twisted
- Dimensions
- Width: max 230 mm, Length: max 915 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1932.89.163 Other numbers: 16
Search terms: Fishing, Fishing Accessory, Net, Weight, Sinker
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