Object class: Fish traps / Object type: ethnography / Culture or time period: American cultures - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Fish trap, accession number 1-216592, described as Double cone shape. Plain twine in willow. Made of willow (gaiī’ˑce) with feather inserts as charms to attract fish. Opening near edge for removing fish. Used in lakes, streams also for catching birds in tule marshes. Southeastern Pomo name: xona’ būxa'l, šá-miˑče.

Hearst Museum object titled Fish trap, accession number 1-400, described as Openwork plain twined fish trap of red willow (Linnean: salix laevigata, Northern Pomo: kaka’lˑyem, maˑyem). Wide mouth, narrow neck. Northern Pomo name: ka’kōi.

Hearst Museum object titled Fish trap model, accession number 2-2761a-c, described as a)Trap: square mouthed, conical shaped with 2 upright sticks on either side of mouth; continuous spiral of wood on outside binds verticals. b) Fence: made of bound vertical and horizontal sticks; one stick bound onto fence vertically; one horizontal broken. c) Fence: smaller version of b), one of bindings broken. Made of spruce with spruce root bindings.

Hearst Museum object titled Fish trap model, accession number 2-2762.1, described as Fish trap model. Conical shape 2 pieced trap of spruce and spruce root (?) binding. 1st piece: circular mouthed, tied to 2nd piece; 2nd piece: circular mouthed with continuous spiral of wood holding vertical splints together with binding. End of binding is loose.

Hearst Museum object titled Trap, accession number 2-72097, described as Fish Trap, Eskimo, made of wood strips, cone-shaped and bound in spiral from bottom to top with hand-cut strips of wood. On inside of trap is another smaller conical wooden implement with spiral woodstrips and hole in center top. (See Drawing; Object 2-72096)

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 TB-37, described as Fish trap model small. Double cones. Inside cone 12cm (L), spiral twig lashed to straight sticks. Small inside cone has 1.5cm opening in small end.

Hearst Museum object titled Trap, accession number TB-36, described as Fish trap model, small model or inside portion of another model. Megaphone shaped open work made by lashing a spiraling one piece twig around 30 separate sticks. Approximately half run the entire length of the trap and the others are inserted at the midpoint to provide support as the trap flares out.

Hearst Museum object titled Trap, accession number 1-2320, described as Fish trap; twined. Warp and weft are Willow (Salix). Seed proofed with soaproot juice (Chlorogalum pomeridianum). 25 cm diam., 61 cm long