Basketry Eel Trap
date: label: Accession Date
content: 13 Dec 1976
name: label: Collector
content: Daniel B. Kennedy Jr.
label: Donor Name
content: Daniel B. Kennedy Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Wide strips of split white oak wicker woven to form a slightly tapered cylinder with other pointed strips inside forming a flexible cone from the larger end to allow passage only inward. Smaller end fitted with heavy wooden block tied on with rope. Dipped in tar to preserve. This trap was made in 1944 by David Bullock [accession records list maker as Gordon Bullock], who used it. Now (1975) only make wire ones. Very well preserved. Refer to Cat. No. 401,477 for another."
label: Notes
content: The National Museum of the American Indian also has a similar eel pot/trap made by Gordon Bullock in their collections, Catalog Number 25/701 https://americanindian.si.edu/collections-search/objects/NMAI_266218 .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Sep 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Stafford County, Virginia, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Potomac (Patawomeck)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 325551
label: USNM Number
content: E418094-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Trap