Colony and protectorate · 1896–1960
Rice farms, palm oil and kernels, fishing nets and traps, cooking, shops, mines and markets: the work that fed the country and paid its way.
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Fish trap of another kind Collected 1930–31
Original title: Fish trap, fish-
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Bottle-shaped fish trap Collected 1930–31
Original title: Fish trap, fish-
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Bottle-shaped fish basket with a neck Collected 1930–31
Original title: Fiskkorg, fish basket
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Fish basket with long string handles Collected 1930–31
Original title: Fiskkorg, fish basket
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Small fish basket Collected 1930–31
Original title: Fiskkorg, fish basket
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Fish basket with fibre handles, no neck Collected 1930–31
Original title: Fiskkorg, fish basket
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Dark fish basket without a handle Collected 1930–31
Original title: Fiskkorg, fish basket
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Basket of two palm leaves plaited together Collected 1930–31
Original title: Basket
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Hunting net, 5 m long Collected 1930–31
Original title: Hunting net, net
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Hunting net, 7.5 m long Collected 1930–31
Original title: Hunting net, net
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Knife for cutting palm fruit, forged from Kissi pennies Collected 1930–31
A hooked knife for cutting down bunches of palm fruit, forged from Kissi pennies: the long, thin twisted iron rods once used as money in the Kissi country and around it. The money was iron, so a smith could turn it into a tool. Collected by the Swedish ethnographer Gustaf Bolinder on his 1930–31 journey through Sierra Leone.
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Women's hand net Collected 1930–31
Original title: Net, fishing net
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Plaited fish trap, Vai Collected 1930–31
Original title: Fish trap
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Fishing net on a bent cane Collected 1930–31
Original title: Fishhole, net
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Rat trap of leaves and a bent stick Collected 1930–31
Original title: Rat trap, rat
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Boys' hand net of palm fibre Collected 1930–31
Original title: Fiskeredskap, net, fishing tool
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Freetown-Fishing shrims c. 1900
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