Trap
- Museum number:
- 2-66935
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020066935
- Accession number:
- Acc.3716
- Description:
- Wood peg with two attached loops of baleen (brown).
- Donor:
- Dorothea Leighton
- Collection place:
- St. Lawrence Island, Nome Borough, Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska; St. Lawrence Island
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- Dorothea Leighton
- Collection date:
- 1940
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Traps (trapping equipment)
- Context of use:
- This object is used to trap ducks. The stick is put in the ground, and the ducks catch their feet in the loops. When they try to struggle away, the loops tighten around their feet." Information supplied by donor.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 9 centimeters and width 25 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-