Netting shuttle

Museum number:
2-6637
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020006637
Alternate number:
x-2830 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Whalebone netting shuttle (baleen). According to Nelson, "the Eskimo of eastern Siberia and of St. Lawrence Island must have derived the pattern of their shuttles from farther south, and the imported design thus replaced the ordinary kind in use among their relatives of the islands of Bering strait and the American shore." INUA: Spirit World of the Bering Sea Eskimo: "St. Lawrence Islanders obviously liked the design of the whalers' net shuttles, which they copied and made out of baleen.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
St. Lawrence Island Yup'ik
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1898
Materials:
Sinew (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Netting shuttles
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Used to make netting.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 17 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: cf. Nelson p. 192 and pl. LXXIII#11-13; #13. INUA: Spirit World of the Bering Sea Eskimo, p. 232, pl. 278.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Netting shuttle, accession number 2-6637, described as Whalebone netting shuttle (baleen). According to Nelson, "the Eskimo of eastern Siberia and of St. Lawrence Island must have derived the pattern of their shuttles from farther south, and the imported design thus replaced the ordinary kind in use among their relatives of the islands of Bering strait and the American shore." INUA: Spirit World of the Bering Sea Eskimo: "St. Lawrence Islanders obviously liked the design of the whalers' net shuttles, which they copied and made out of baleen.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Netting shuttle, accession number 2-6637, described as Whalebone netting shuttle (baleen). According to Nelson, "the Eskimo of eastern Siberia and of St. Lawrence Island must have derived the pattern of their shuttles from farther south, and the imported design thus replaced the ordinary kind in use among their relatives of the islands of Bering strait and the American shore." INUA: Spirit World of the Bering Sea Eskimo: "St. Lawrence Islanders obviously liked the design of the whalers' net shuttles, which they copied and made out of baleen.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Netting shuttle, accession number 2-6637, described as Whalebone netting shuttle (baleen). According to Nelson, "the Eskimo of eastern Siberia and of St. Lawrence Island must have derived the pattern of their shuttles from farther south, and the imported design thus replaced the ordinary kind in use among their relatives of the islands of Bering strait and the American shore." INUA: Spirit World of the Bering Sea Eskimo: "St. Lawrence Islanders obviously liked the design of the whalers' net shuttles, which they copied and made out of baleen.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Netting shuttle, accession number 2-6637, described as Whalebone netting shuttle (baleen). According to Nelson, "the Eskimo of eastern Siberia and of St. Lawrence Island must have derived the pattern of their shuttles from farther south, and the imported design thus replaced the ordinary kind in use among their relatives of the islands of Bering strait and the American shore." INUA: Spirit World of the Bering Sea Eskimo: "St. Lawrence Islanders obviously liked the design of the whalers' net shuttles, which they copied and made out of baleen.

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