Fish trap
Object Details
- Label Text
- Fish traps, which vary in size, are specialized baskets designed with an interior hollow that allows fish to swim in, but not out. Relatively small baskets such as this one would be used in streams and creeks.
- Description
- Cone shaped fish trap, funnel opening
- Provenance
- Seymour Levenson, Bethesda, - to 1976
- Exhibition History
- Currents: Water in African Art, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., June 2016-ongoing
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- Credit Line
- Gift of Seymour Levenson
- Data Source
- National Museum of African Art
- Date
- Mid-20th century
- Object number
- 76-35-3
- Maker
- Undetermined artist
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Sculpture
- Medium
- Reed
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 14 × 50.2 × 14.5 cm (5 1/2 × 19 3/4 × 5 11/16 in.)
- Geography
- Liberia
- See more items in
- National Museum of African Art Collection
- Exhibition
- Currents: Water in African Art
- On View
- NMAfA, Third Level Corridor
- Topic
- Hunting/Fishing
- male
- Record ID
- nmafa_76-35-3
