Animal Trap

2003-43-234

From: Siberia | Amur River

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 2003-43-234
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Siberia | Amur River
Culture Area Siberia
Section American
Materials Wood | Iron
Technique Carved | Forged
Description

A trap consisting of four pieces of crudely carved wood fitted together, roughly in a square, with mortise and tenon construction; eight iron barbs have been fitted into the top side of this frame; the tip of the barbs rise to form a deadly circular opening

Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1899.1.234 - Other Number | 18 - Other Number

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