Fish trap

Museum number:

1-400

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Alternate number:

8 (original number) and NO-TEMP82 (previous museum number (recataloged from))

Accession number:

Acc.13

Object count:

1

Description:

Openwork plain twined fish trap of red willow (Linnean: salix laevigata, Northern Pomo: kaka’lˑyem, maˑyem). Wide mouth, narrow neck. Northern Pomo name: ka’kōi.

Donor:

John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

Walker Creek, Marin County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California

Culture or time period:

Coast Miwok and Northern Pomo

Collector:

John Preston Stanley and Philip Mills Jones

Collection date:

1900-1901

Materials:

Red willow (wood)

Taxon:

Salix laevigata

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Basketry (object genre), Fish traps, and Twined weaving

Accession date:

August 1901

Context of use:

A great deal of fishing was done in Northern Pomo, though not by Western and Northeastern Pomo, where temporary fishing camps were scattered about the shores and the Clear Lake was central to Pomo basketry and subsistence. Northern Pomo cuisine revolves less around fish, but traps like 1-400 were common for catching fishes in a variety of aquatic environments from streams to the ocean.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

length 4.5 feet

Comment:

For materials, see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 46. cf. Barrett, Samuel Alfred. Pomo Indian Basketry. Vol. 7. The University Press, 1908. Sturtevant, William C. Handbook of North American Indians. Edited by Wilcomb E. Washburn, David Damas, June Helm, Wayne Suttles, Alfonso Ortiz, Warren L. D'Azevedo, Ives Goddard, and Deward E. Walker. Vol. 8. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1978. Kroeber, Alfred Louis. "California Basketry and the Pomo." American Anthropologist 11, no. 2 (1909): 233-249.

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