Peg
MacPhee House Community Museum
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| Nom de l'objet : | Peg |
| Artiste ou artisan : | Levy Laurie |
| Type de l'objet : | Lobster Claw |
| Catégorie de l'objet : | Tools and Equipment for Materials |
| Sous-catégorie de l'objet : | Fishing & Trapping T&E |
| Matériaux : | Wood - clear pine |
| Technique de fabrication : | Sawn, hand whittled (chipped) |
| Numéro d'accession : | 1999.001.001a-aa |
| Fabricant : | N/A |
| Nom du marchand : | Unknown |
| Date de début de production : | 19430000 Later Than |
| Date de fin de production : | 19580630 Prior To |
| Description : | Rectagular sectioned wood wedge with sharp point. Base flat, sides and upper surface shaped down into a wedge. Whittling marks visible on all knife cut faces. Collection includes 27 similar pegs. |
| Commentaires : | To make these pegs, a piece of pine board was sawn and split to yield sheets 0.5 cm thick and approximately 4 cm deep. These were then cut by jack knife into strips about 0.6 cm wide. The resultant pieces were hand whittled (a process called chipping) into sharp pegs with a small uncut space left at the thick end for handling. Peg chipping was a winter task for anyone in a fishing family, especially children. In New Brunswick these pegs are referred to as plugs. These pegs, or plugs, were used to hold the pincher and crusher claws closed, to enable safer handling for the boat crew, and when the lobsters were placed in a holding tank. The pegs also prevented the lobster grabbing, and often killing, other lobsters in the holding tanks. These benefits resulted in millions of pegs being used to reduce the mortality rate, and therefore increase profit. The tradition of making lobster pegs, or plugs, originated in the Acadian village of West Pubnico, Nova Scotia. By the 1930s the entire village was engaged in making them, and West Pubnico had become known as "the lobster plug capital of the world". West Pubnico plugs were supplied to the Maritime Provinces, and also to the New England states of the U.S.A. West Pubnico retained its status until wooden plugs were superseded by elastic bands, at which point pegs became obsolete. The bands caused less damage to the lobsters than the pegs. Sources: A: Levy, Laurie. B: The Lobster Plug Story in West Pubnico, Museum Acadien de Pubnico-Ouest, Retrieved from Virtual Museum of Canada, http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/pm.php?id=record_detail&fl=0&lg=English&ex=00000140.(6 November 2006).; and "The Lobster Plug Story", Vernon d'Eon, Lobster Plugs Ltd., Retrieved from http://www.vernoneon.com/History.php, (6 November 2006) |
| Hauteur : | 0.5 |
| Longueur : | 4.0 |
| Largeur : | 0.6 |
| Unité de mesure linéaire : | cm |
| Nombre d'objets : | 1 |
| Nombre de parties composantes : | 1 |
| Établissement : | MacPhee House Community Museum |
| Ville de l'établissement : | Sheet Harbour |
| Province de l'établissement : | Nova Scotia |
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