Dugout Canoe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 1892
label: Collection Date
content: 1892
name: label: Collector
content: Terrill Bradby
label: Donor Name
content: Terrill Bradby
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MADE BY TERREL BRADLEY [SIC] FROM WHOM IT WAS A GIFT. ORIGINALLY HAD TWO PADDLES BUT THESE WERE MISSING AS FAR BACK AS IN THE 1890S. REFER: COLLINS' MS. P. 879. USNM BULL. 127, P. 218. Former no. 160,379. Loaned to Div. Com. Life (MHT) 8/15/79. Returned 6/2/80. Lent to Calvert Marine Museum 9/22/1989. [Loan returned 2024.]" Collins Ms. indicates the paddles were missing as of 1899. NOTE: THE MAKER/DONOR'S NAME IS MISSPELLED ON THE CARD. HE IS TERRILL BRADBY, NOT TERREL BRADLEY (FOR BACKGROUND ON HIM SEE ACCESSION FILE LETTER FROM JOHN GARLAND POLLARD AND THE LATTER'S ARTICLE ON THE PAMUNKEY IN BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 17, ESPECIALLY PP. 11 AND 17 - 18).
label: Notes
content: From U.S. National Museum Bulletin # 127, p. 218: "Dugout canoe. The Indians used this type of canoe for crossing the Pamunkey River, etc., in Virginia. It is a small dugout with an open, double-ended, round bottom; keelless; with full convex raking ends; inside burned out; equipped with two lanceolate bladed paddles. Dimensions of canoe. - Length, 8 feet 10 inches; beam, 18 inches; depth, 9 inches; paddles, 4 feet 8 inches long. Made and presented by [Terrill Bradby], a Pamunkey Indian." Canoe is also discussed on p. 18 of the Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin # 17, available online http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27437187 : "The collection comprised also a "dugout" canoe, made of a log of wood, hollowed out with metal tools of white man's manufacture. Such canoes were formerly dug out by burning, and chopping with a stone ax."
label: Notes
content: An intramural transfer of specimens document filed in accession file 36053 dated February 18, 1965 lists this boat as part of a group of boats transferred from the Division of Transportation to the Division of Ethnology, Department of Anthropology.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Sep 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Lester Manor, King William County, Virginia, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pamunkey
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 026600
label: USNM Number
content: E165450-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 36 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 46 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 269 cm