Netting shuttle
- Museum number:
- 2-4285
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020004285
- Alternate number:
- x-431 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Netting shuttle with 2-ply veg. fiber cordage (of willow bark?). Bone with cross-hatching on one surface.
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Cavia, Seward Peninsula, Nome Borough
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska; Seward Peninsula; Cavia
- Culture or time period:
- Malemiut Eskimo
- Collector:
- Rudolph Neumann
- Collection date:
- 1898
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Netting shuttles
- Function:
- 1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- to make fish netting.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 20 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1964-1965 #9: University of California, Davis (September 3, 1964–January 1965)
- Legacy documentation:
-