Boat Model, New Jersey Sneakbox
date: label: date made
content: 1890
notes: label: Description
content: This model represents a New Jersey sneakbox, a small boat invented and used in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey. The sneakbox was developed in 1836 by boat builder Captain Hazleton Seaman, as a small boat that could be camouflaged for hunting wild fowl. Low in the water, the sneakbox is decked with a small cockpit so that a hunter can camouflage the boat with grasses over the top. During the nineteenth century the sneakbox was used by hunters, particularly commercial duck hunters. It would typically carry one person, along with his gear. Some sneakboxes were fitted out with sails, although this one is not and would have been rowed instead. The original represented by this model was a little under 12 feet long and around 4 feet wide. It was built in 1890 and given to the Smithsonian by J. D. Gifford from Tuckerton, New Jersey.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
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content: Transportation
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content: Ship Models
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of J. D. Gifford
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TR.026623
label: catalog number
content: 026623
label: accession number
content: 5622
objectType: label: Object Name
content: boat, sneak
label: Object Name
content: boat, sneak, rigged model
label: Other Terms
content: boat, sneak; Maritime
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 5 in x 16 in; 30.48 cm x 12.7 cm x 40.64 cm