Fish Net
2003-43-226
From: Siberia | Amur River
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 2003-43-226 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Siberia | Amur River |
| Culture Area | Siberia |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Birch Bark | Stone | Vegetable Fiber | Animal Fiber |
| Technique | Carved | Non-woven | Wrapped |
| Description | Large rectangular fishing net of knotted vegetable fiber attached at opposite ends to carved wooden poles; a heavier braided rope of animal fiber is laced along the outside end of net; large carved wooden floats are attached to this rope; sinkers of stone wrapped in birch bark are attached at various places on the netting. |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1899.1.226 - Other Number | 91 (Civic Center, 1957) - Other Number | 309/2 - Other Number |
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