Description (CMS Description)
'Model (1/2 Real Size) for catching small fish in shallow water in tanks & pools'
Event Date 22/10/2015
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
'Conical shaped model fish trap'
Event Date 22/10/2015
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
CMS record created on 22.10.2015 by O. Maguire based on the information available on the Accession Register and Catalogue Card for Z 46719.
Event Date 22/10/2015
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
?Exhibited at: Exposition Universelle, Paris (15 April to 12 November 1900).
Event Date 25/1/2016
Author: Olivia Maguire

Context (CMS Context)
Brown card label attached to object by string reads [in printed black text]: 'KOONDEL. (Sambalpur C. P.) / Half real size. For catching small fish / in shallow water in tanks and pools.'
Event Date 25/1/2016
Author: Olivia Maguire

Context (CMS Context)
Brown paper label attached to object by string reads [in both printed and handwritten text]: 'Paris Exhibition. / Form No. 3. / INDIA. / Central Provinces / PROVINCE / OR / STATE. / No. 20 [crossed through] 1238 [in different hand] / Class I, Division C [crossed through] E, Section X / Exhibitor's Name N. Hearle / Address Offc Conservator of Forests / S. C. of [?] Nagpur'.
Event Date 25/1/2016
Author: Olivia Maguire

Conservation (Remedial)
CON.2016.3571 | Remedial
Event Date 28/10/2016
Author: Rachel Howie

Description (CMS Description)
A model of a fish trap for catching small fish in shallow water, trap is half the size of a real one.
Event Date 7/12/2016
Author: maa

Description (Display)
'Another India: Explorations and Expressions of Indigenous South Asia' 07/03/2017 - 22/04/2018 MAA exhibition label text reads:

‘An interesting series of traps used in fishing’

Also displayed in the Pavillon des Indes Anglaises at the 1900 Paris Exhibition was a series of model fish traps from southern and eastern India (including parts of modern Bangladesh). Some of these were donated to this Museum following the closure of the exhibition in Paris.

Collected by Officers of the Indian Forest Department, each was accompanied by a brief caption giving its local name and use, but no information on the identities of its makers. These models were collected by Nathaniel Hearle, a Forest Officer of 20 years’ experience, just before his retirement.

2. Model fish trap (koondel)

‘Half real size. For catching small fish
in shallow water in tanks and pools.’

Sambalpur, Orissa
Collected by Nathaniel Hearle Donated by the Government of India Z 46719

Event Date 22/3/2017
Author: Remke Velden

Exhibition (Li Ka Shing Gallery)
EXH.2017.2 | Another India: Explorations and Expressions of Indigenous South Asia
Event Date 8/3/2017
Author: Remke Velden

Context (Display)
A metal mount was made for the display of the object in the 'Another India' exhibition 8/3/2017-22/4/2018. This has been bagged and stored with the object in the box.
Event Date 25/4/2018
Author: Remke Velden