Mesh measure
- Museum number:
- 2-4188
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020004188
- Alternate number:
- x-334 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Mesh measure for seal nets. Made of reddish wood.
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- St. Michael, St. Michael Island, Nome Borough
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska; St. Michael
- Culture or time period:
- Malemiut Eskimo
- Collector:
- Rudolph Neumann
- Collection date:
- 1898
- Materials:
- Baleen
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Mesh measures
- Function:
- 1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits and 7.3 Weights, Measures, and Computing Devices
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- Used to size net meshes.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 30 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-