Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
99.21.099
Accession#:
99.21
Credit Line:
Donated by Mary Ann Parke.
Object Name:
Float
Title:
Milled Donut—Shaped Cedar Salmon Gillnet Float
Date:
1950
Description:
Milled donut—shaped cedar salmon gillnet float. Bored 0.75 inch diameter hole in center of "donut". Float surfaces on top and bottom of "donut" with about 0.25 inch round—over edges. Circumference of float smooth. "Donut" composed of 2 glued—up halves evident by near perpendicular grain. Dark color from pine tar(?) treatment — slight smell of pine tar.
Notes:
From collection of beach combed items collected by Thomas S. Parke. Used on cork line of salmon gillnet.
Search Terms:
Fisheries
Fishing
Subsistence
T&E
Fishing
Subsistence
T&E
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