Net Gauge
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1874
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. William H. Dall
label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Coast Survey
notes: label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=37 , retrieved 10-23-2021; see web page for additional information: Net gauge, Yup'ik. This measuring tool is for making a fine-mesh net such as a dip net for tomcod, seine net for herring, or round net for needle fish. The tool is made of bone [or antler], wood, and spruce root. Traditional fish nets were woven from twisted willow bark, sinew, or bearded seal thong, and used in rivers and on the coast from early summer through fall to catch herring, whitefish, and all five species of salmon - king, sockeye, pink, chum, and dog. Nets were suspended between wooden floats and sinkers of bone or stone. They could be set out from shore or drifted downriver using a kayak. Handheld dip nets caught whitefish, smelt, lampreys and other species.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Nunivak Island, Bering Sea, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik, Magemiut (Marayarmiut)
label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 003195
label: USNM Number
content: E16157-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Net Gauge
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 16.1 cm