Oval base with wood tunnel and adjacent curving piece. "293" appears to be on base of specimen.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Kotzebue Sound, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Kotzebue Sound
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Rudolph Neumann
Collection date:
1898
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Traps (trapping equipment)
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Fox trap. Neumann's catalogue: "The original trap is all made of snow on which water is poured to freeze it well together. The entrance marked "a" is made of wood.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 7.4 centimeters and 11.2 centimeters
Comment:
Second original no. = Neumann 293 (?) Conservation: 50/50 applied, trap vacuumed.