Object class: Traps (trapping equipment) / Culture or time period: Eskimo / Accession number: Acc.167 - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Trap, accession number 2-6421, described as Spruce, elongated cone with funnel shape entrance at larger end, lashings wound spirally around circumference from small end to mouth. In mouth of trap is conical mouthpiece (small end broken). Carved stick for handle attached to mouth of trap. Made with spruce root and shoots.

Hearst Museum object titled Trap, accession number 2-6387a-c, described as (a) Fish trap model with (b) fence and (c) pendant fish. (a) Spruce, oblong slat and hoop construction. (b) Fence from trap: wood slats and crosspieces attached to long piece of wood. (c) Pendant fish which has come loose from tie in trap, other fish still attached. Made with spruce root and shoots.

Hearst Museum object titled Trap, accession number 2-6386a,b, described as Model" of trap for blackfish. Spruce. (a) elongated cone with funnel shape entrance in larger end, lashings wound spirally around circumference from small end to mouth. (b) conical mouthpiece inside trap (not attached).

Hearst Museum object titled Trap, accession number 2-6392, described as Spruce, elongated cone with funnel shape entrance at larger end; lashings wound spirally around circumference from small end to mouth; attached to mouth of trap by lashings on 2 sides is conical mouth piece lashed to square frame work of 4 sticks; 2 handles on either side of mouthpiece. Made with spruce root and shoots.