This hall dates from the late 1960s. The ethnographic pieces are grouped per theme.

Fishing
 

Fish is a major source of animal protein and traditional fishing plays a major role in the economy. A whole range of instruments and techniques are used, such as floating or sinking gill nets, beach dragnets, casting nets, supple or rigid fyke nets, traps, sieves, fishing lines or harpoons.

Music
 

Music is a lively form of expression that particularly divulges a lot about everyday life, religion and the thoughts of people in African cultures. Traditional music plays an essential part in a whole range of contexts: communication, rituals, leisure, healing, an expression of power and prestige, etc.
Here is a wonderful collection of drums, wind instruments and stringed instruments, which are often beautifully sculpted. For instance, the lovely human-shaped sanza or thumb piano. The knees are bent slightly and both her hands are raised, fingers spread. Seven bamboo plates are attached to the wooden figure’s torso: the sanza’s fingerboard.