Fish trap model

Museum number:
2-2761a-c
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
a)Trap: square mouthed, conical shaped with 2 upright sticks on either side of mouth; continuous spiral of wood on outside binds verticals. b) Fence: made of bound vertical and horizontal sticks; one stick bound onto fence vertically; one horizontal broken. c) Fence: smaller version of b), one of bindings broken. Made of spruce with spruce root bindings.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Upper Yukon River, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
; Upper Yukon
Culture or time period:
Northern Athapaskan tribes
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
1894-1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Fish traps
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Context of use:
Fish trap model. Fence used to guide fish into traps, fastened with sticks to river bed, extending to shore line. The conical section is first part of trap which leads into a conical shaped "basket" to hold fish until collection.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
a)— length 18.8 centimeters, a)— length 24.1 centimeters, a)— 17 centimeters, b)— length 59.5 centimeters, and c)— length 19 centimeters
Comment:
References: "The Eskimo About Bering Strait", nelson, William, p. 184. "U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology", 18th Annual report. Noted as having been exchanged with Harvard Peabody Museum.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Fish trap model, accession number 2-2761a-c, described as a)Trap: square mouthed, conical shaped with 2 upright sticks on either side of mouth; continuous spiral of wood on outside binds verticals. b) Fence: made of bound vertical and horizontal sticks; one stick bound onto fence vertically; one horizontal broken. c) Fence: smaller version of b), one of bindings broken. Made of spruce with spruce root bindings.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Fish trap model, accession number 2-2761a-c, described as a)Trap: square mouthed, conical shaped with 2 upright sticks on either side of mouth; continuous spiral of wood on outside binds verticals. b) Fence: made of bound vertical and horizontal sticks; one stick bound onto fence vertically; one horizontal broken. c) Fence: smaller version of b), one of bindings broken. Made of spruce with spruce root bindings.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fish trap model, accession number 2-2761a-c, described as a)Trap: square mouthed, conical shaped with 2 upright sticks on either side of mouth; continuous spiral of wood on outside binds verticals. b) Fence: made of bound vertical and horizontal sticks; one stick bound onto fence vertically; one horizontal broken. c) Fence: smaller version of b), one of bindings broken. Made of spruce with spruce root bindings.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fish trap model, accession number 2-2761a-c, described as a)Trap: square mouthed, conical shaped with 2 upright sticks on either side of mouth; continuous spiral of wood on outside binds verticals. b) Fence: made of bound vertical and horizontal sticks; one stick bound onto fence vertically; one horizontal broken. c) Fence: smaller version of b), one of bindings broken. Made of spruce with spruce root bindings.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fish trap model, accession number 2-2761a-c, described as a)Trap: square mouthed, conical shaped with 2 upright sticks on either side of mouth; continuous spiral of wood on outside binds verticals. b) Fence: made of bound vertical and horizontal sticks; one stick bound onto fence vertically; one horizontal broken. c) Fence: smaller version of b), one of bindings broken. Made of spruce with spruce root bindings.

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