Mesh measure
- Museum number:
- 2-19285
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020019285
- Accession number:
- Acc.854
- Description:
- Mesh measure/gauge. Made of antler. Incised longitudinal line with diagonal slashes on top edge and along top of both sides.
- Donor:
- Ellinor C. Davidson and George Davidson
- Collection place:
- Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- unknown
- Collection date:
- unknown
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Mesh measures
- Function:
- 7.3 Weights, Measures, and Computing Devices
- Accession date:
- 1945
- Context of use:
- For net-making.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 18.2 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-