Net

A net attached to four sticks for trapping game, probably Australian aboriginal. Collected by Sir John Franklin or his wife Jane, while he was governor of Van Diemens Land (Tasmania).

Object Details

ID: AAA3768
Collection: World Cultures
Type: Net
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 1837-1843; 1837-43
Credit: On loan to the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, from the Hopton Hall Derbyshire Collection. Kindly lent by the Gell Muniment Trustees