Conical fish trap - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 99424 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 187.00 PALMAE Raphia farinifera | Entry Book Number | 9.2016 | |
| Artefact Name | Conical fish trap | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Madagascar | TDWG Region | Madagascar | ||
| Parts Held | Conical fish trap | Geography Description | Tanana (village) Sahamamy, Fkt Morarano | ||
| Uses | Conical fish trapUse: User: Man | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Large shelving | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Gardiner, Lauren | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 27/07/2016 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Gardiner, Lauren | Collector No | LGEB25 | ||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 16/06/2016 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Two part fish trap, shorter section (used to hold trap together for storage) fits inside wider mouth of the large conical piece, narrow end bound closed, structure tied with raphia string and a branch used to prop trap up in flow of stream, fish swim in b, ut cannot swim back out. Trap usually left out overnight and collected in the morning (Lauren Gardiner, pers. comm.). Similar deposited with COL and MO | ||||