Bark Canoe, Alaska
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Apr 1893
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Coast Survey
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Originally numbered 168190. An open, sharp-ended, flat bottom, keeless canoe, with flaring sides; decked with birch bark at one end for a distance of 5 feet 3 inches; made by covering a light open framework with birch bark sewed together with root fibre, and the seams covered with pitch." See Collins Ms. p. 850.
label: Notes
content: The accession number for this canoe is uncertain. It has been listed on its catalogue card as possibly part of Accession 26892, but it is also possible it may be part of accession 27937? This canoe is included on a shipping invoice dated June 23, 1947, filed in Accession 36096, recording the transfer of a number of boats from the Division of Engineering to the Division of Ethnology.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Feb 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Indian
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 026892
label: USNM Number
content: E160386-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 64.8 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 72.4 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 5 m