Portions Of Wooden Frame Of Kyak-Frame
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1871
name: label: Collector
content: Capt. Charles F. Hall
label: Donor Name
content: Capt. Charles F. Hall
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "FROM PORTION OF FRANKLIN'S VESSLES." [Reference is to the wood used for the kayak being presumed to be from one of the ships of Sir John Franklin's lost expedition of 1845.]
label: Notes
content: See "The Sŭpunger Kayak Collected By Charles Francis Hall, Made From Wood Salvaged From HMS Erebus" by Russell S. Taichman, Arctic Studies Center Newsletter No. 30, May 2023, pp. 71-72. https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/116560 . A pdf copy is attached to this record. Note: Sŭpunger's name has been variously spelled by Charles Francis Hall (and others) as Su-punger, Su-pŭng-er, Sŭ-pŭng-er, Su-pung-er, and Supunger. He was an Inuk (Inuit) man from Pelly Bay/Boothia Peninsula, Nunavut.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: King Williams Land (King William Island), Nunavut, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 002157
label: USNM Number
content: E10373-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Kayak