Object Details
Donor Name
U.S. Coast Survey
Notes
From card: "Originally numbered 168190. An open, sharp-ended, flat bottom, keeless canoe, with flaring sides; decked with birch bark at one end for a distance of 5 feet 3 inches; made by covering a light open framework with birch bark sewed together with root fibre, and the seams covered with pitch." See Collins Ms. p. 850.
The accession number for this canoe is uncertain. It has been listed on its catalogue card as possibly part of Accession 26892, but it is also possible it may be part of accession 27937? This canoe is included on a shipping invoice dated June 23, 1947, filed in Accession 36096, recording the transfer of a number of boats from the Division of Engineering to the Division of Ethnology.
Record Last Modified
9 Feb 2016
Specimen Count
1
Culture
Indian
Accession Date
8 Apr 1893
Accession Number
026892
USNM Number
E160386-0
Object Type
Canoe
Height - Object
64.8 cm
Depth - Object
72.4 cm
Width - Object
5 m
Place
Alaska, United States, North America
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Data Source
NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
Topic
Ethnology
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmnhanthropology_8344748