Goose Snares
date: label: Accession Date
content: 4 Jan 1887
name: label: Collector
content: William J. Fisher
label: Donor Name
content: William J. Fisher
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Wooden stake and whalebone noose." Illus. Fig. 175, p. 180 in Crowell, Aron, Amy F. Steffian, and Gordon L. Pullar. 2001. Looking both ways: heritage and identity of the Alutiiq people. Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Press.
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 http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=228, retrieved 9-6-2012: Snares, Sugpiaq (Alutiiq), Koniag. negat "snares" - Language: Koniag Sugpiaq (Alaska Peninsula dialect) Each snare in this bundle consists of a wooden stake with a slippery loop of whale baleen. The snares were set up in a line along the grassy edge of pond where geese gathered. A bird's foot, head, or wing might become caught in the loop.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Ugashik, Alaska Peninsula / Ugashik River, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik
label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Alutiiq (Sugpiaq), Koniag
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 018490
label: USNM Number
content: E127778-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Trap
physicalDescription: label: Length - Bundle Of Snares
content: 18 cm