Grip, live animal

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OBJECT TYPE: fox
DATE: 1890–1930
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 2008.0834.001

MANUFACTURER: Unknown
MODEL: Unknown
LOCATION: Unknown

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 1
Total Parts: 1
AKA: live fox catching tool
Patents: N/A
General Description: All metal [iron ?] construction.

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length: 65.0 cm
Width: 8.5 cm
Height: 3.5 cm
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: N/A
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Agriculture
Category: Animal husbandry
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: Unknown
Country: Unknown
State/Province: Unknown
City: Unknown

Context

Country: Canada
State/Province: Nova Scotia
Period: Presumably used c. 1890s to early 1920s.
Canada: From the 1890s to early 1920s fox farming and in particular silver fox farming was big business in Canada, and could be very lucrative. Much of the activity was centred in the Maritimes (PEI, NS & NB): Agriculture Canada established a demonstration fox farm outside Charlottetown. Foxes were fed scraps from the fish packing plants because this diet was cheap, and produced a lustrous pelt. This device used on a fox farm in the Annapolis Valley. [Ref. 1]
Function: Used for handling live foxes.
Technical: This tool allowed the handler to pick up live animals safely [ie. without being bitten], and prevented the transfer of human scent to the fox. The latter consideration was extremely important: because they were kept together in small, open cages a fox which smelled like a human would have been attacked and killed by it's neighbours. This device appears to have been forged by a blacksmith: similar tools may have been commercially produced. [Ref. 1]
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: None evident.
Missing: Unknown: believed to be complete.
Finish: All metal [iron ?] construction.
Decoration: N/A

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Unknown Manufacturer, Grip, live animal, circa 1890–1930, Artifact no. 2008.0834, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2008.0834.001/

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