Trap

Museum number:
2-72097
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4743
Description:
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)
Donor:
Robert E. Shore
Collection place:
Bethel, Bethel Census Area, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Bethel, Alaska
Culture or time period:
Eskimo
Collector:
Robert E. Shore
Collection date:
1973-1974
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Fish traps
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
August 24, 2004
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 107 centimeters and circumference 104 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 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 2 of 2 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)

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