Float (fishing)

Museum number:
2-69116
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Accession number:
Acc.4555
Description:
Made of skin or bladder. Holes in skin are plugged with wooden pegs and teeth.
Donor:
Valene Smith McIntyre
Collection place:
Western Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Western Alaska
Culture or time period:
Eskimo
Collector:
Valene Smith McIntyre
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Context of use:
Attached to a harpoon line.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 13 centimeters and length 24 centimeters
Comment:
References: "cf Qajaq, David W. Zimmerly, Div. of State Museums, Juneau Alaska, 1986, p. 7 and fig. 50
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Float (fishing), accession number 2-69116, described as Made of skin or bladder. Holes in skin are plugged with wooden pegs and teeth.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Float (fishing), accession number 2-69116, described as Made of skin or bladder. Holes in skin are plugged with wooden pegs and teeth.

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