Bench and forms used to weave eel traps
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1825-1900
Medium:
Wood
Description:
Equipment for making eel traps, including bench and molds for weaving components and bench for slicing wicker.
Credit Line:
Gift of Professor Gustave Noback
Object Number:
1944.355a-h
Gallery Label:
This work bench and accompanying cone-shaped wooden forms were used to make eel traps. The tapered cylindrical baskets were constructed with funnel openings that allowed eels to be swept or to swim into the interior. Fresh, dried, and smoked eel were popular delicacies during the nineteenth-century. Long Island eel was a favorite, and it was sold at the Sunday morning Catherine Slip eel market.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
27834
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
lobster pot complete
Classification:
Date:
1825-1900
Medium:
Wicker
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 x 10 in. ( 55.9 x 25.4 cm )
Description:
Wicker eel trap; tapering cylindrical form with open-ended cone pointing inward at one end and circular cover at other.
Credit Line:
Gift of Professor Gustave Noback
Object Number:
1944.355g
Provenance:
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
27833
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
form for lobster pot end
Classification:
Date:
1825-1900
Medium:
Wood, wicker
Dimensions:
Overall: 38 x 10 in. ( 96.5 x 25.4 cm )
Description:
Wooden form for interior of eel trap; solid wooden cone with incurving sides; wooden rod protrudes from center of base of cone; leather trim around edge of base;woven wicker basket around form.
Credit Line:
Gift of Professor Gustave Noback
Object Number:
1944.355f
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
27831
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Indian woman
Classification:
Date:
1850-1875
Medium:
Painted wood, iron wheels and crossbars, varnish
Dimensions:
Overall: 74 x 22 1/4 x 23 1/2 in. ( 188 x 56.5 x 59.7 cm )
Description:
Indian maiden wearing feathered headress and necklace holding cigars in right hand, tobacco in left hand; brown skin tones, green blouse, red skirt, buff leggings, pyramid of vari-colored balls painted on three sides of base which rests on four wheels.
Credit Line:
Gift of George Neaher
Object Number:
1924.26
Gallery Label:
According to the daughter of the donor, this figure stood in front of her father's Manhattan cigar shop from 1875 to 1903. He also had a billiard table in his shop, and the pyramid of balls painted on the base supposedly represents billard balls.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1875
eMuseum Object ID:
27774
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Scotsman
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1870-1900
Medium:
Wood, painta
Dimensions:
Overall: 37 x 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. ( 94 x 36.8 x 29.2 cm )
Description:
Figure of a Scotsman with a snuff pouch in left hand.
Credit Line:
Gift of Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1938.322
Gallery Label:
Carved wooden tobacco shop figures were mass-produced in the U.S. in the last half of the 19th century. Individual craftsmen typically worked for manufacturing firms. There were several major manufacturers producing as many as 300 figures a year. The "Scottish Highlander" figure was typically associated with snuff.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
27743
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Indian woman
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1875
Medium:
Painted and carved wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 67 1/2 x 15 x 19 3/4 in. ( 171.5 x 38.1 x 50.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.1766
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1880
eMuseum Object ID:
27742
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Indian man
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1850-70
Medium:
Wood, paint
Dimensions:
Overall: 54 x 19 1/2 x 16 3/4 in. ( 137.2 x 49.5 x 42.5 cm )
Description:
Right arm upraised holding cigars wearing a mohawk and a three-feather headdress
Credit Line:
Gift of Carl Otto von Kienbusch
Object Number:
1956.20
Marks:
inscribed: painted at proper left corner of top of base: "48"
Gallery Label:
This example conforms to a type of figure introduced ca. 1850 by John L. Cromwell, a leading carver of ship and cigar-store figures in New York.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
27741
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Cigar store sign
Classification:
Date:
1850-1875
Medium:
Wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 3/4 x 33 1/4 x 1 3/4 in. ( 27.3 x 84.5 x 4.4 cm )
Description:
Rectangular white painted cigar store sign with squared wooden border and black painted inscription.
Object Number:
Z.970
Marks:
painted: in black: "CIGAR/ MANUFACTURERS"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1875
eMuseum Object ID:
27725
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mortar and pestle
Classification:
Date:
1800-1900
Medium:
Wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 33 x 13 in. ( 83.8 x 33 cm )
Description:
Turned wooden mortar and pestle, possibly a trade sign; turned, banded pestle with bowl top; tall mortar with incurving sides.
Object Number:
Z.961
Gallery Label:
This object was probably a meant to be a trade sign.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
27718
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tavern Sign
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1785
Medium:
Wood, metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 41 x 23 x 2 1/2 in. ( 104.1 x 58.4 x 6.4 cm )
Description:
Rectangular wooden tavern sign with broken scroll top and shaped bottom; molded frame on both sides around blue ground and painted image in white medallion; one side has medallion with woman's profile and thirteen stars, inscribed "LIBERTY"; other side has medallion with spread eagle with arrows, thirteen stars and "UNITED STATESOF[sic] AMERICA" inscribed; top of earlier painted shield shows through eagle; "1800" painted over "1785" on both sides; "L TAYLOR/ TAVERN" painted on both sides, but later covered over by blue ground.
Credit Line:
Purchase, Abbott Fund
Object Number:
1951.476
Gallery Label:
According to the accession records, this sign hung in front of the Silver Dollar Tavern in Norwalk, Connecticut. A letter from the dealer from whom it was purchased, John K. Byard, explains that the person he purchased it from believed it to have come from Norwalk, Connecticut. A Levi Taylor is recorded in Connecticut tax records as keeping a tavern in Norwalk in 1798.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1785
eMuseum Object ID:
27691
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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