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Hand Net
vor 1900
About the object
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.”