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"Sluice" fish trap - the man is a Bene
"Sluice" fish trap - the man is a Bene
Object Number 2004.24.6685
Display Title "Sluice" fish trap - the man is a Bene
Descriptions
Object Description A "sluice" fish trap. Stream is dammed up, small opening left, thru which water passes into a sluice and fish are left on the bed of sluice, made of afronum stems generally, while water percolated thru. The man is Bene.
Keywords
  • Fishing
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • Rural
  • Trap
Department Photographic
Date 1922
Artist George Schwab
Culture
  • Basa?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Cameroon
Materials Negative, nitrate

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