Trap

Museum number:
2-66936
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Accession number:
Acc.3716
Description:
Wood peg with two attached loops of baleen (brown). One baleen loop is broken.
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:
width 25 centimeters and length 9 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Trap, accession number 2-66936, described as Wood peg with two attached loops of baleen (brown). One baleen loop is broken.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Trap, accession number 2-66936, described as Wood peg with two attached loops of baleen (brown). One baleen loop is broken.

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