Champan Canoe, South America
date: label: Date
content: 1853 or 1857
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Sketch of a covered riverboat or canoe known as a champan, piloted by five individuals. One stands at the helm, wearing a hat and poncho and manning the rudder; another stands atop the canopy, guiding the boat with a long pole; two others row near the boat's bow while another, possibly a woman, cooks beside them, facing forward. The champan is long and slender in form, with triangular tips. Scratchings at lower right.
place: label: made in
content: Colombia or Ecuador
label: place depicted
content: Colombia and Ecuador
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louis P. Church
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1917-4-1343
objectType: label: Type
content: transportation
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray-green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 17.6 × 27.7 cm (6 15/16 × 10 7/8 in.)