''Wheel' trap made from pointed sticks bound with plant fibre into a circle, with an attached three pronged stick [SM 29/11/2007]

Collection type: Object
Description: ''Wheel' trap made from pointed sticks bound with plant fibre into a circle, with an attached three pronged stick [SM 29/11/2007]
Long description: ''Wheel' trap made from pointed sticks bound with plant fibre into a circle, with an attached three pronged stick. The trap has 10 pointed sticks bound onto a circle of plant fibre. A length of twisted plant fibre string is tied to the trap. and a three pronged stick is attached to the other end of the string. [SM 29/11/2007]
Geographical reference: Uganda
Africa > Eastern Africa > Uganda; Western Region [Hoima, Kibale, Masindi districts] / Bunyoro-Kitara
Cultural groups: Nyoro
Person: Field collector John Roscoe; Field collector Mackie Ethnological Expedition; PRM source John Roscoe
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1920
Date collected: 1919-1920
Acquisition information: Donated: 1922, uncertain
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Plant Fibre, Material String Plant, Process Carved, Process Bound, Process Twisted
Dimensions: Length: max 136 mm stick, Diameter: max 160 mm trap
Object numbers: Accession number: 1922.38.5
Research and responses: Rev. John Roscoe The Soul of Central Africa, A General Account of The Mackie Ethnological Expedition, London 1922. Balfour Library Reference : Africa 8
Also: Roscoe The Northern Bantu, Cambridge 1915. Balfour Library Africa 8

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