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Fishing gear

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Many artefacts in the Brandeis collection are concerned with fishing and document the elaborate techniques and skills that the people of the Marshall Islands have developed for this purpose. Hand nets like these, which were used to catch fish in the lagoons, are notable examples. In her list of artefacts from 1900, Antonie Brandeis details how they are used: “Between the months of May and November shoals of small, herring-like fish swarm into the lagoons. Palm leaves are used to draw boundaries in the water near land and then the swarming fish that are being hunted by larger fish, are driven with cries and shouts towards other men waiting with nets on sticks aready.”

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Fischfanggerät
Dimensions
Width: 270.0 mm
Length: 1550.0 mm
Material/Technique
Coconut fibre, Wood
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/1282

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1900
  • Change of legal title:
    Donation
    when
    24.04.1900
    who
    Brandeis, Eugen - Former Possessors
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Marshall Islands (location/origin)
    Micronesia (location/origin)
    Oceania (location/origin)
    who
    Brandeis, Antonie - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania
Provenance
Donated by Eugen Brandeis (Imperial Governor of the Marshall Islands) April 1900, collected by Antonie Brandeis (Jaluit) /Donated by Eugen Brandeis (Imperial Governor of the Marshall Islands) April 1900, collected by Antonie Brandeis (Jaluit) Object no. 37 (Object list Antonie Brandeis, 1st consignment April 1900, SAF D.Sm 35/1): "A fish net on a stick. Nok in bobu. Net on coir rope". Additional comment: "In the months of May to November, shoals of small herring-like fish come into the lagoon. Boundaries are now drawn in the water near the land using palm leaves, and the shoal, pursued by large fish, is driven into them with shouting, and then caught by other men who are standing by using nets on sticks No. 37." (in: "Bemerkungen zu den dem Museum zu Freiburg /B. übersandten ethnologischen Gegenständen aus den Marshallinseln. South Seas". SAF D.Sm 35/1).

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