Wood and whalebone snare for catching Alca Psitica or Greenland parrot. [LM 21/11/2007]

Collection type: Object
Description: Wood and whalebone snare for catching Alca Psitica or Greenland parrot. [LM 21/11/2007]
Long description: Wood and whalebone snare for catching Alca Psitica or Greenland parrot. A strip of whalebone runs through a hollow wooden tube, and where it emerges it forms a noose lashed to the tube. The two halves of the tube are bound together with fine strips of sinew. The other end of the whalebone strip is lashed to a short peg. [LM 21/11/2007]
Geographical reference: United States of America
Northern America > North America > United States of America; Alaska Icy Cape
Cultural groups: Inuit (Greenland); Inuit
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Edward Belcher; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1884
Date collected: ?Prior to 1872
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884 Found unentered: Found unentered
Materials and processes: Material Baleen Whale Animal, Material Animal Sinew, Material Willow Wood Plant, Process Bound, Process Carved
Dimensions: Length: max 360 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.140.947 PR Cat other PR nos: 1703