Snares
- Museum number:
- 2-4436
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020004436
- Alternate number:
- x-582 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- 2 ply twisted sinew cordage, red-painted dowels. Hollow cylinders not included. Card states: "slip nooses of strips of feather quill".
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- unknown
- Materials:
- Sinew (material) and Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- Used to snare snow hare.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Legacy documentation:
-