Boat Model, Lake Erie Pound-Net Sharpie
date: label: date made
content: 1880s
notes: label: Description
content: Sharpies, a flat-bottomed sailboat with triangular sail(s) were popular in several regions of the United States. This particular version of the sharpie was built in Green Bay, Ohio and was used on Lake Erie by pound-net fisheries during the 1880s. Sharpies had two masts, a mainsail and foresail. The model represents a craft that was 28 feet long by 9½ feet wide. This model of a sharpie was given to the Smithsonian by the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries in 1899.
label: Description
content: Pound-net fishing is a technique in which a net leads fish into a funnel-like net that ends in an anchored entrapment.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
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content: Transportation
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content: Ship Models
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U. S. Fish Commission
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TR.76265
label: catalog number
content: 76265
label: accession number
content: 28022
objectType: label: Object Name
content: boat, lake erie pound net, model
label: Object Name
content: boat, lake erie pound net, rigged model
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 28 in x 3 in; 24.13 cm x 71.12 cm x 7.62 cm