Fish trap - cray fish - Specimen details

Fish trap - cray fish - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 73566

Plant Name 187.00 PALMAE Eremospatha macrocarpa Entry Book Number 37.1995.5
Artefact Name Fish trap - cray fish Vernacular Name
Iso Country Cameroon TDWG Region Cameroon
Parts Held Fish trap - cray fish Geography Description Cameroon, Africa, West-Central Tropical Africa, Limbe
Uses Fish trap - cray fishUse: MATERIALS User: Man TDWG use MATERIALS
Storage Bottles etc, outsize Related Items
Donor Nkemngong B Donor No
Donor Date Donor Notes
Collector Rumball N Collector No 41
Collection Notes Collection Date 00/10/1995
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Fish trap made by Nkemngong Barnabus, who learnt how to make traps as a boy at Lebialem. Different plants are used to make them depending on availability (especially by children). This trap is made of palm, and the rope is of beaten inner fibre of stem., Palm nuts are placed inside the pointed end of the trap and the inner ring of barbs prevents the fish getting out once they have entered. Similar traps are made to catch other fish, this one was made unusually small to enable transportation. Usually t, hey are 4-5 feet long. The pointed end can be untied to get the fish out. The conical shape is held round by a ring of inner bark from a Legume - Mimosoideae.
Determinations:57.03 LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE
    187.00 PALMAE Eremospatha macrocarpa

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