Fisherman’s Work Gloves
date: label: date made
content: ca 2007
name: label: maker
content: Showa Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Deckhands who work aboard factory trawlers in the Bering Sea and North Pacific are exposed to extremely cold, wet, and sometimes dangerous conditions. They wear protective gear such as hard hats, boots, and waterproof clothing, including heavy-duty vinyl work gloves.
label: Description
content: These gloves, worn by a fisherman on the catcher-processor <I>Alaska Ocean</I> in 2007, are personalized with a phrase chosen by their owner, a common practice employed for identifying one’s own gear at a moment’s notice. The words “FISH ON ROCK,” appearing on both gloves, were this man's personal choice, their exact meaning known only to him.
label: Description
content: While the sleeves of these gloves are long for tucking in the sleeves of other garments, the deck hands often fold the glove sleeves to fit around their wrists when working in relatively warm, dry conditions.
label: Description
content: The <I>Alaska Ocean</I> is a 376-foot-long vessel in the Seattle-based catcher-processor fleet. Workers catch, process, package, and freeze groundfish—mostly pollock and Pacific whiting—in the Bering Sea and in the waters off the coast of the Pacific Northwest.
place: label: Place Made
content: Malaysia
label: place made
content: Malaysia
topic: label: Subject
content: Fishing
label: Subject
content: Fishing
label: related event
content: Contemporary United States
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: Work
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content: Natural Resources
label: Exhibition
content: On the Water
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: National Museum of American History. On the Water exhibition website
label: Related Web Publication
content: http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthewater
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Alaska Ocean through Jeff Hendricks
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2007.0178.07
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0178.07
label: accession number
content: 2007.0178
objectType: label: Object Name
content: gloves
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: polyvinyl chloride (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/4 in x 6 1/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 28.575 cm x 15.875 cm x 4.445 cm