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Set of whalebone duck snares
Object Number 04-28-10/63533
Display Title Set of whalebone duck snares
Descriptions
Inventory Description Line, coil of baleen, baleen lashing, coil tied with rawhide
Classification
  • Fishing and trapping
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Kuigpagmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Additional Geographic Terms Bering Sea; Lower Yukon River
Materials Baleen, Rawhide
Dimensions Overall: 19 x 17 x 2.7 cm (7 1/2 x 6 11/16 x 1 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 63533
Provenance
Collector Rev. Charles Lemon Hall
Donor Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley (1904)

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