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Object Number 14-27-10/85882
Display Title Snare
Descriptions
Object Description Snare
Inventory Description Snare, coiled and wrapped fiber, looped at either end
Classification
  • Snare
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Gitksan
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / British Columbia
Additional Geographic Terms Skeena River, Upper
Materials Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 24 x 31.5 x 7 cm (9 7/16 x 12 3/8 x 2 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 85882
Provenance
Collector Lt. George Thornton Emmons (?)
Donor Lt. George Thornton Emmons (1914)

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