File:FMIB 48214 Claw Quahaug Rake.jpeg

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English: State of Massachusetts Fish and Game Commission
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English: Claw Quahaug Rake .

--This rake varies greatly in size and length. Its use is chiefly confined to Nantucket. The general style has a handle 6 feet long, while the iron part, in the form of a claw or talon, with prongs 1 inch apart, is 10 inches wide. A heavier rake, as here shown, us sometimes used in the deeper water.

  • Subject: Quahoging, Fishing--Equipment and supplies
  • Tag: Fisheries Techniques, Shellfish
Date 1912
date QS:P571,+1912-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
institution QS:P195,Q219563
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English: Massachusetts. Commissioners on Fisheries and Game. (1912) Report Upon the Quahaug and Oyster Fisheries of Massachusetts, Boston, MA: Wright & Potter Printing Co.
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Public domain This is a photograph from the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank at the University of Washington. Materials in the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank are in the public domain. No copyright permissions are needed. Acknowledgement of the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank as a source for borrowed images is requested.

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