Bird snare of whalebone and wood. [LM 26/11/2007]

Collection type: Object
Description: Bird snare of whalebone and wood. [LM 26/11/2007]
Long description: One end of a whalebone strip is tied around the end of a wooden tube; the other end passes through the tube, forming a running noose. The size of the noose is controlled by a wooden peg tied part-way up the whalebone strip. The bird would enter the noose to eat bait, and on trying to fly away would pull against the peg and be caught. [LM 27/11/2007]
Geographical reference: United States of America
Northern America > North America > United States of America; Canada
Northern America > North America > Canada
Cultural groups: Inuit (Greenland); Inuit
Person: Field collector Frederick William Beechey; Field collector HMS Blossom; PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Date / Period: Date made: On or before 1826
Date collected: ?On or before 1826
Acquisition information: Transferred: 11/03/1886
Materials and processes: Material Whale Bone Animal, Material Wood Plant
Dimensions: Length: max 320 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.1.779.16 Other numbers: 358 744 - 763
Research and responses: Please note that there was no further information about Beechey on the Donor Index cards at the Ashmolean Museum, Department of Antiquities. [L.Ph 23/3/2004]