Eel Pot
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Jul 1963
name: label: Collector
content: Daniel B. Kennedy Jr.
label: Donor Name
content: Daniel B. Kennedy Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Woven strips of White Oak to form cylinder with other splints inside forming cone-shaped, thron-trap to allow eel passage in one direction only. Splints blackish with tar. Made by Barefoot [Arthur D.] Green, 1945-46. Splints stripped by knife from 2 1/2 - 3 feet long log. Completed eel pot dipped in tar to preserve. Baited with bugfish, mudshed, and in Spring, herring. Information supplied by collector, D. B. Kennedy. Very poorly preserved. Refer to: Cat. No. 418,094 for a later one given by this donor."
label: Notes
content: The National Museum of the American Indian also has a similar eel pot/trap made by Arthur D. "Barefoot" Green in their collections, donated by Daniel Kennedy, Catalog Number 23/131 https://americanindian.si.edu/collections-search/objects/ws6d90fde05-44eb-4121-b7a6-d1ff3b7bd6bd .
label: Notes
content: See Kennedy, Daniel B. "Splint Eel Pots of the Potomac Band," Indian Notes and Monographs v. 8, no. 2 (1972), Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation:59-63 , https://ia600502.us.archive.org/23/items/indiannotes821972muse/indiannotes821972muse.pdf .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Sep 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Indian Point / Brooke, Near, 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: 249634
label: USNM Number
content: E401477-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Trap