Canoe-Paddle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1884
name: label: Donor Name
content: Rev. J L. Gould
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Loan: Crossroads Sep 22 1988. Loan returned: Jan 21 1993. Illus.: Crossroads of Continents catalogue; Fig. 190, p. 157." Identified in photo caption as "Steering Paddle, Haida. Long, broad-bladed paddles were used by the steersman of large traveling canoes. Crew paddles were shorter and more pointed. Designs on paddles related to the design on the canoe, this one being an octopus with long, sucker-lined tentacles. The paddle is made of tough yellow cedar."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Long Island / Jackson (Howkan), Alexander Archipelago, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Haida (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 014917
label: USNM Number
content: E73544-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe Paddle