Birchbark Canoe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Apr 1893
label: Collection Date
content: 1892
name: label: Collector
content: J. H. Turner
label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Coast Survey
notes: label: Notes
content: Catalogue card indicates the other catalogue numbers formerly used for this canoe were E168191 and E160382. Catalogue card lists both accession number 26892 and 27937, however 26892 seems to be correct. See Collins Ms. p. 849.
label: Notes
content: This canoe is described in the U.S. National Museum Bulletin # 127, p. 215: "Birch-bark canoe. Type used by the Tinneh [Athabaskan] Indians for traveling, hunting, and fishing on the rivers of northern Alaska. It is made of birch bark, which covers a light wooden frame and is held to the gunwales by lashings of root fiber; seams pitched. The canoe has long, sharp, raking ends; flat bottom; flaring sides; and a deck at one end for a length of 5 feet; four gunwale braces. Dimensions of canoe. - Length, 18 feet; beam, 26 1/2 inches; depth, 12 1/2 inches. Collected by J. Henry Turner."
label: Notes
content: The original record states that this is from "Nowikakat (Nowi), Yukon River." According to Orth's Dictionary of Alaska Place Names, the Nowitna River "flows NE 250 miles to East Channel Yukon River, 38 mi NE of Ruby," which is all Koyukon Athabascan territory. One variant of this name listed in the entry is "Nowikakat." Orth also notes that the "Indian name, often locally referred to as 'The Novi' or 'Novi River.'"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Nov 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Nowikakat (Nowi), Yukon River / Nowitna River, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Koyukon (Denaakk'e)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 026892
label: USNM Number
content: E166934-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 58 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 69.8 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 615 cm