Dugout Canoe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 Oct 1936
label: Collection Date
content: 1926 to 1929
name: label: Collector
content: Richard K. Peck
label: Donor Name
content: C A. Kleinoscheg
notes: label: Notes
content: This canoe was collected by Richard K. Peck, either while he was on the Matthew Stirling New Guinea expedition of 1926 (the 1926 Dutch and American Expedition to New Guinea), or while with Dr. E. W. Brandes of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, on the 1928 Sugar Cane Expedition to Papua New Guinea. The canoe, along with the rest of Peck's collection (accession # 137754) were donated in 1936 after Peck's death by his mother-in-law Mrs. Kleinoscheg. In 1953, the canoe was re-examined and severe rotting was discovered. In a letter to Dr. Remington Kellogg, Director of the U.S. National Museum, Herbert W. Krieger, Curator, Division of Ethnology, suggests that they saw off the decorated end section of the canoe and place it with the rest of the Peck collection. Dr. Kellogg responded saying to save as much of the canoe as possible. The catalogue card notes "Complete decorated parts and as much of the canoe as was not rotted was salvaged. And photos of whole taken. 1959 the decorated end which was retained, was partly rotted so it was extensively treated by being soaked up with ambroid and duco cement solutions, to harden it."
label: Notes
content: Locality note: Ledger book specifies 'British New Guinea' pre-1936 (coll. 1926-1928) which narrows down the locality somewhat from New Guinea.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Northern New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Papuan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 131988
label: USNM Number
content: E377675-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 41 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 61 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 170 cm