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| Nom de l'objet : | Weight |
| Type de l'objet : | weight, balance |
| Classification de l'objet : | man-made artefact |
| Catégorie de l'objet : | tools & equipment for science & technology |
| Sous-catégorie de l'objet : | weights & measure tools & equipment |
| Discipline : | industrial history material culture |
| Matériaux : | iron wood |
| Technique de fabrication : | cast |
| Numéro de catalogue : | 1996.WE.WA.01 |
| Province d'utilisation : | pre-confederation Newfoundland Newfoundland and Labrador |
| Pays d'utilisation : | Canada Dominion of Newfoundland |
| Culture : | pre-confederation Newfoundland Canadian |
| Secteur géo-culturel : | North America |
| Contexte culturel : | fish processing |
| Date de fin de production : | c 1900s |
| Période : | early 20th century |
| Description : | This artefact is an iron weight. This is a solid one piece cast iron weight that has the poundage cast into its face. The weight is rectangular in shape with a crescent indent along the top edge. Spanning the indent is solid round bar of iron which acts as a handle. |
| Commentaires : | After the French lost their rights to the Labrador fishery in 1763 with the signing Treaty of Paris, English and Jersey merchants established their control. The practice was to send crews and supplies to the Labrador from England to fish for the season and then return home. This practice was found to be too costly and the merchants adopted the practice of obtaining the supplies and crews needed for the fishery from Newfoundland and Labrador. This became known as the floater fishery. Newfoundland merchants eventually established control over the Labrador fishers; merchant firms such as the Job Brothers bought large shares in the fishery from the original English merchants. While the bulk of the Labrador Fishery in the Late 19th and early 20th century was centered on the southern coast of Labrador, Dr. Wilfred Grenfell noted in a report entitled "Labrador Fisheries, 1892-1924," that there were a number of schooners that fished in and around Makkovik. |
| Fonctions : | Weights like this were commonly used in the Newfoundland and Labrador fisheries. Once fish had been processed it was sold and bought by weight. The fish merchant accepted a fisherman's catch and issued payment based on the total weight of the end result. The base unit of measurement used in the weighing of fish was the quintal. The quintal was equivalent to 112 pounds. This weight at 56 pounds is half a quintal. Weights similar to this were known to have the name of the merchant firm cast into the face. |
| Unité de mesure linéaire : | cm |
| Nombre d'objets : | 1 |
| Nombre de parties composantes : | 1 |
| Nom des parties composantes : | body |
| Étiquette ou poinçon : | 56 POUNDS |
| Établissement : | White Elephant Museum Inc. |
| Ville de l'établissement : | Makkovik |
| Province de l'établissement : | Newfoundland and Labrador |
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