Wood hook and tube, sinew line and noose. Neumann #370
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
Materials:
Sinew (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
The end of the string is fastened to a branch of a bush and then bent so that the wooden hook will catch another branch. The loop is then tied with grass to keep it in it's place. The hare then entering the loop breaks the grass and pulls the hook from