The website also says baleen, but does not detail which part of the snare is made of baleen.

The Baleen part is the round part that hold the rabbit. Baleen is strong and flexible. Your top picture looks the best. I even shows the Baleen splitting into fibers. Baleen is the black part inside the whales mouth that filters all the small fish and shrimp. They are usually about 10-12 foot long when you take them out of the whale. Natives scrimshaw or carve a picture into them and sell them still to this day in Anchorage Alaska. It looks to me like you could still use it today for a couple more before it breaks. I bet that one caught a lot of hares up here. We don't have rabbits, we have hares. Arctic Hares and Snowshoe Hares.

"We trap squirrels.
We make lots of snares,
we use eagle feathers, wings from all kinds,
from ducks too.
We made lots of snares.

I know how to make it too,
snare with a stick on there,
that’s all I used in the mountain,
little snare.
[You have the bird wing and cut it and make it round?]
Um-hum, with sinew too.

My mom had lots of snares,
she made lots too.

We put [the snare] above the squirrel hole
and that qunsha [squirrel] come out
and get in there and it kill it. [You used to get lots?]
Lots, whole side of the mountain,
we set snares.

After the season [fishing season]
we got up there
and set the snares.
Right now we go up the mountain [September month].
I make a parka out of it,
those little skins, gloves, hat,
that squirrel is pretty. [you get ready for winter eh?]
Um-humm, all the winter stuff,
we make."
—Mary Hobson, 2007
Interview with Karen Evanoff, 178

Snare made from eagle feather quill with hide lace and wooden toggle.

Rabbits were primarily caught by women, children, and the elderly. At times, rabbits may have been the main meal of a family for weeks. Truthfully, people ate rabbit at any time of the year but they frequently ate rabbit in late winter when other meat supplies ran low. Rabbits were caught year-round as they were also snared to feed to the dogs. Old style snares are made of sinew from moose legs. This particulare model was made of quill from an eagle feather. Today most hunters will use snares made of wire or fishing twine. In the olden days, rabbit snaring would have been a joint venture, usually two or three women would go out and set snares in thickets where they could see evidence of rabbits. The snare, acting like a noose, would ideally be suspended from the thicket and tied into place with the hide string. Snares should hang far enough from the ground to catch the rabbit by the neck. When the head of the rabbit enters the snare it will tighten and choke the animal. Usually, each woman would set about twenty snares. If the rabbit was found alive, the hunter would have the unpleasant task of strangling the animal to death. The hunter was required to visit the snares at least once a day. Small game will rot quickly so the animal would have to be skinned and cooked as soon as possible. Rabbits were also sought after for their skins. The netted rabbit fur was a popular material for making garments such as robes, boys snowsuits and baby swaddling clothes. The material was light, warm and the garments could be easily made by cutting strips of hide to be knitted into clothing. Snares could be made for other small animals or rodents such as gophers.

Culture/People: Iñupiaq [Nuwukmiut/Point Barrow]

Each snare in this bundle consists of a wooden stake with a slippery loop of whale baleen. The snares were set up in a line along the grassy edge of pond where geese gathered. A bird's foot, head, or wing might become caught in the loop.