Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2002.11.113 AB
Accession#:
2002.11
Credit Line:
Donated by Mary Ann Parke.
Object Name:
Packet
Title:
Salmon Longline Gear Packet
Date:
1970
Description:
Wrapped package of Asian Salmon Longline Gear. Plastic newspaper—like outer cover (B) fastened with three metal staples to secure end of bag (staples removed). White paper wraps the gear inside plastic cover; black print identifies gear type, logo, and maker. Paper held with rotten rubber band (removed). Longline, leaders, and hooks coiled and secured to prevent tangling (A). Longline is green .0625—inch twine. Hooks are secured into .5—inch diameter rod of twisted and secured (with white twine) rushes or grass. Ends secured with wraps of red plastic tape. Upper end of hook shank has barb, below which monofilament line is tied (rather than an eye in the hook). Hooks approximately size 5. Two strips of bamboo (?) held with rubber bands (removed) on ends secure longline coil.
Inscription: "SALMON LONGLINE GEAR"
"MAKER: [Asian character] TOKO TRADING CO, LTD."
Notes:
Given to Mary Ann Parke by Ken Imamura. Longline gear and a pelagic gear tray are from an offshore Asian longliner ~ 1970's. Ken gave me this gear to go with a tray that my father, Thomas S. Parke, had beachcombed from the shores of SE Alaska (2002.11.112). The bamboo gear tray from Ken and another set of Salmon Longline Gear were donated by Parke to the Alaska State Museum in Juneau.
See 2002.11.113 for explanation of use of gear and circular tray.
Wiped plastic cover with damp cloth.
Search Terms:
fisheries
fishing
Asian
ethnic diversity
ethnographic
non—Alaskan
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