Mesh measure
- Museum number:
- 2-4181
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020004181
- Alternate number:
- x-327 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Mesh measure or gauge for white fish net. Made of antler.
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- U.C. Col. #26
- Collection date:
- 1898
- 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 whitefish nets.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 16 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-