Rat-Trap
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 May 1895
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William L. Abbott
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "175147A. RAT TRAP.-CONSISTING OF A WOODEN STOCK LIKE THAT OF A CROSSBOW, WITH A SQUARE HOLE CUT IN THE FORWARD END, FITTED WITH A BOW MADE OF A ROUGH BRANCH. THE SHARP POINTED ARROW IS FASTENED TO THE GOAT'S WOOL CORD AND LIES IN THE GROOVE OF THE STOCK UNTIL RELEASED BY A TRIGGER, WHICH IS SET OFF BY THE RAT THRUSTING ITS HEAD INTO THE SQUARE HOLE IN THE STOCK. EASTERN TURKESTAN. NEG. NO. 32449-A. 175,147. GIFT OF DR. W. L. ABBOTT."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: East Turkestan (Xinjiang), China (not certain), Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 029359
label: USNM Number
content: E175147-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Trap