- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Conical fish trap lined with thorny calamus mid-ribs.
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Sangtam Naga
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1922
- Date collected
- 1922
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1925
- Materials and processes
- Material Plant Thorn, Material Rattan Plant, Process Basketry
- Dimensions
- Length: max 650 mm, Width: max 210 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1925.8.3
- Associated publications
- Illustrated with a line drawing in the leaflet 'Basketry in The Pitt Rivers Museum', devised by Felicity Wood with the Oxfordshire Basketmakers, 2001. It is also featured on the website www.basket.prm.ox.ac.uk [JN 14/11/2001]
Search terms: Fishing, Basketry, Trap, Fishing Accessory
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