Boat Model, Model Of A Proa
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Midshipman Wilkes Henry
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "5/23/41 HAD BECOME SO BADLY DETERIORATED THAT IT WAS CONDEMNED AND SENT TO TREASURY DEPT., PROCUREMENT DIV. FOR DISPOSITION. REFER TO USNM. BULL. 127, P. 250-1."
label: Notes
content: Card calls this a "Model of piratical prahu (prao), Sooloo Isl., obtained in Singapore." Peale catalogue entry on this artifact calls it a model of "a proa, or armed vessel of the Malay Islands, obtained at Singapore." It is described in the Collins Ms. pp. 1197-1199. The Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists the collector for E3892 as "W. Henry, USN", which would be Wilkes Henry, the nephew of Charles Wilkes. Later cataloguers listed Wilkes Henry on the catalogue cards as the collector for E3892-3895, but the ledger book only lists him for E3892.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sulu Islands, Philippines
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: (?)
label: Culture
content: Malay (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3892-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Boat Model