Trap Housing
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Mar 1986
label: Collection Date
content: 1970's-Early 1980's
name: label: Collector
content: Eskimos, Unnamed
label: Donor Name
content: Mr. A J. Seidl
notes: label: Notes
content: HOLLOW, ROUGHLY RECTANGULAR. U-SHAPED SECTION REMOVED FROM CENTER. USE: A STRIKING ARM WITH SPIKES, PLACED UPRIGHT IN CENTER OF TRAP HOUSING, WAS HELD UNDER TENSION BY TWISTED SINEW CABLES INSIDE THE TRAP BODY. THE ARM WAS HELD BACK BY A TRIGGER ATTACHED TO A CORD. AT THE OTHER END OF THE CORD, UNDER THE ARM, WAS THE BAIT, USUALLY A FISH HEAD. A TUG ON THE BAIT RELEASED THE ARM, AND THE ANIMAL WAS BRAINED. THIS TRAP, ACCORDING TO THE DONORS' INFORMANTS, WAS USED TO KILL FOXES.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Feb 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Savoonga (Near) / St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea / St. Lawrence Quad, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Neo-Eskimo (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 360969
label: USNM Number
content: A533617-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Trap
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 27 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 6.6 cm