Trap

Museum number:
2-2106
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Spruce, elongated cone with funnel shape entrance to larger end, lashings wound spirally around circumference from small end to mouth; in mouth of trap is conical mouthpiece attached to rectangular framework which is lashed to trap mouth on two sides; made of spruce shoots and spruce roots.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwest Bering Sea, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Northwest Bering Sea
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
ca. 1895
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Fish traps
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Context of use:
Fish trap.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 40 centimeters and length 14.5 centimeters
Comment:
References: "cf. Nelson, Plate LXX, Fig. 14
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Trap, accession number 2-2106, described as Spruce, elongated cone with funnel shape entrance to larger end, lashings wound spirally around circumference from small end to mouth; in mouth of trap is conical mouthpiece attached to rectangular framework which is lashed to trap mouth on two sides; made of spruce shoots and spruce roots.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Trap, accession number 2-2106, described as Spruce, elongated cone with funnel shape entrance to larger end, lashings wound spirally around circumference from small end to mouth; in mouth of trap is conical mouthpiece attached to rectangular framework which is lashed to trap mouth on two sides; made of spruce shoots and spruce roots.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Trap, accession number 2-2106, described as Spruce, elongated cone with funnel shape entrance to larger end, lashings wound spirally around circumference from small end to mouth; in mouth of trap is conical mouthpiece attached to rectangular framework which is lashed to trap mouth on two sides; made of spruce shoots and spruce roots.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Trap, accession number 2-2106, described as Spruce, elongated cone with funnel shape entrance to larger end, lashings wound spirally around circumference from small end to mouth; in mouth of trap is conical mouthpiece attached to rectangular framework which is lashed to trap mouth on two sides; made of spruce shoots and spruce roots.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Trap, accession number 2-2106, described as Spruce, elongated cone with funnel shape entrance to larger end, lashings wound spirally around circumference from small end to mouth; in mouth of trap is conical mouthpiece attached to rectangular framework which is lashed to trap mouth on two sides; made of spruce shoots and spruce roots.

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