Balsa Raft
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 Apr 1896
label: Collection Date
content: 1895
name: label: Collector
content: William J. McGee
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Made of three bundles of reeds lashed together. Refer: McGee, W. J.: The Seri Indians, BAE A.R. 17, Pt. 1, p. 217, pl. 31." This boat, its collection, and boats of this type are described in detail in the publication on pp. 216 - 221. This publication is available online. Link to p. 216 of the publication is here: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k276252/f372.image . It is indicated there that the boat was collected in 1895 near Boca Infierno. In papers in the accession file, McGee indicates it was collected in the Autumn of 1895.
label: Notes
content: Boat is described in U.S. National Museum Bulletin # 127, p. 217: "Grass boat or balsa. Used by the Seri Indians of Mexico. This boat was obtained on Tiburon Island, Gulf of California. The boat is almond-shaped with very tapering ends, and is made up of three bundles of reeds lashed together. The center bundle is about 10 feet long, and the two outer bundles are 27 feet long, while the greatest width at the center is 3 feet."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Boca Infierno (near), Tiburon Island, Sonora, Mexico, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Seri (Comcaac)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 030579
label: USNM Number
content: E160391-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Raft
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 33 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 91 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 8 m