Needle

Gallery Location

Daphne Cockwell Gallery dedicated to First Peoples art & culture

Maker

Northern Ojibwa

Medium Wood

Geography

Weagamow Lake, Ontario, Canada

Date 1950s

Dimensions 19 × 4.3 × 0.4 cm

Object number 959.50.16.A

Collection

Regional Textiles & Costume of the Americas Indigenous Arctic & Subarctic

Department Art & Culture: Indigenous Americas

Description

The netting needle and gauge are the tools used to weave a gill net. The cord is wrapped around the needle and the needle is threaded through and tied to strands in the creation of the mesh. Each mesh is wrapped around the wood gauge to keep the meshes a constant size. The size of the gauge, and thus the size of the mesh, is determined by the desired fish size.

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