Basket | Photographer: Axel Killian
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Basket
A fish trap in the form of a long, tube-like basket made from the ribs of coconut palm leaves and tied up at the end. The basket is stabilised through eight double wooden hoops, through which the leaf veins are tied lengthways. In her notes about this artefact, Antonie Brandeis wrote that at certain times of the year, great shoals of “sardine-like fish” swarm into the lagoons of the Marshall atolls where they are then hunted by large predatory fish. The fishermen take advantage of the agitation of the swarming fish and use traps like this one to catch individual fish that stray into shallow waters.
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Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Object type
Korb
Dimensions
Länge: 980.0 mm, Durchmesser: 250.0 mm
Material/Technique
Leaf
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/1281
Provenance and sources
when
before 1900
when
24.04.1900
where
Marshall Islands (location/origin)
Micronesia (location/origin)
Oceania (location/origin)
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. 49 (Object list Antonie Brandeis, 1st consignment April 1900, SAF D.Sm 35/1): "A fish trap. Born. From the fine ribs of the coconut leaf". Additional comment: "The small fish traps No. 49 also serve to catch the fish. If part of the pursuing shoal has strayed into one, it is quickly lifted into the air and the fish thrown into baskets." (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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