Trap

Museum number:
2-6392
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
x-2585 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Spruce, elongated cone with funnel shape entrance at larger end; lashings wound spirally around circumference from small end to mouth; attached to mouth of trap by lashings on 2 sides is conical mouth piece lashed to square frame work of 4 sticks; 2 handles on either side of mouthpiece. Made with spruce root and shoots.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Pastolik, Wade Hampton Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Pastolik
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Rudolph Neumann
Collection date:
1898
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Fish traps
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Trap for losh. Neumann: "length of original 10 feet; mouth of trap, 4 feet square.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 72 centimeters
Comment:
Second original no. = Neumann #409. References: cf. 2-6388-89 for fence for trap.
Loans:
S1986-1987 #28: SFO Museum (June 4, 1987–August 26, 1987)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 5 titled Trap, accession number 2-6392, described as Spruce, elongated cone with funnel shape entrance at larger end; lashings wound spirally around circumference from small end to mouth; attached to mouth of trap by lashings on 2 sides is conical mouth piece lashed to square frame work of 4 sticks; 2 handles on either side of mouthpiece. Made with spruce root and shoots.Hearst Museum object 2 of 5 titled Trap, accession number 2-6392, described as Spruce, elongated cone with funnel shape entrance at larger end; lashings wound spirally around circumference from small end to mouth; attached to mouth of trap by lashings on 2 sides is conical mouth piece lashed to square frame work of 4 sticks; 2 handles on either side of mouthpiece. Made with spruce root and shoots.Hearst Museum object 3 of 5 titled Trap, accession number 2-6392, described as Spruce, elongated cone with funnel shape entrance at larger end; lashings wound spirally around circumference from small end to mouth; attached to mouth of trap by lashings on 2 sides is conical mouth piece lashed to square frame work of 4 sticks; 2 handles on either side of mouthpiece. Made with spruce root and shoots.Hearst Museum object 4 of 5 titled Trap, accession number 2-6392, described as Spruce, elongated cone with funnel shape entrance at larger end; lashings wound spirally around circumference from small end to mouth; attached to mouth of trap by lashings on 2 sides is conical mouth piece lashed to square frame work of 4 sticks; 2 handles on either side of mouthpiece. Made with spruce root and shoots.Hearst Museum object 5 of 5 titled Trap, accession number 2-6392, described as Spruce, elongated cone with funnel shape entrance at larger end; lashings wound spirally around circumference from small end to mouth; attached to mouth of trap by lashings on 2 sides is conical mouth piece lashed to square frame work of 4 sticks; 2 handles on either side of mouthpiece. Made with spruce root and shoots.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Trap, accession number 2-6392, described as Spruce, elongated cone with funnel shape entrance at larger end; lashings wound spirally around circumference from small end to mouth; attached to mouth of trap by lashings on 2 sides is conical mouth piece lashed to square frame work of 4 sticks; 2 handles on either side of mouthpiece. Made with spruce root and shoots.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Trap, accession number 2-6392, described as Spruce, elongated cone with funnel shape entrance at larger end; lashings wound spirally around circumference from small end to mouth; attached to mouth of trap by lashings on 2 sides is conical mouth piece lashed to square frame work of 4 sticks; 2 handles on either side of mouthpiece. Made with spruce root and shoots.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Trap, accession number 2-6392, described as Spruce, elongated cone with funnel shape entrance at larger end; lashings wound spirally around circumference from small end to mouth; attached to mouth of trap by lashings on 2 sides is conical mouth piece lashed to square frame work of 4 sticks; 2 handles on either side of mouthpiece. Made with spruce root and shoots.

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