Plummet

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These are plummets, or weights, connected to a modern net. They were used by Northeast Woodland Indigenous peoples to force a fishing net to sink in the water. Indigenous people would have made their nets from hemp.

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Item typeFishing and Trapping
Tools & Equipment
CreatorNative American
PlaceDeerfield, Massachusetts
TopicNative American
EraEarly Indigenous and European contact, 1565–1619
Colonial settlement, 1620–1762
MaterialStone/Mineral
Catalog #1985.0219
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Native American. Plummet. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/1985-0219/. Accessed on December 6, 2024.

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