Fanny Pack
date: label: date made
content: ca 2007
name: label: maker
content: REI
notes: label: Description
content: Machinery noise on the fish deck can be deafening, and voices can get lost, no matter how loud. To make sure a message gets communicated and received, the deckhands carry radio microphones, and the fanny pack is the preferred way of keeping the instrument at hand but protected from water, dirt, and slime.
label: Description
content: This black nylon fanny pack was worn by a deckhand working aboard the catcher-processor <I>Alaska Ocean</I> in the summer of 2007. He used the radio, along with a microphone clipped to his life vest for communicating with the wheelhouse and other deckhands.
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.
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: Industry & Manufacturing
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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: 2007.0178.04
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0178.04
label: accession number
content: 2007.0178
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fanny pack
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: nylon (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 40 in x 2 in; 17.78 cm x 101.6 cm x 5.08 cm