Canoe Model
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Jan 1867
label: Collection Date
content: 1838
name: label: Collector
content: John Varden
label: Donor Name
content: John Varden
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THIS IS PROBABLY THE SPECIMEN RECORDED BY JOHN VARDEN IN THE ORIGINAL CATALOG (IN THE SMITHSONIAN ARCHIVES) OF HIS WASHINGTON MUSEUM AS: "SOUTH SEA CANOO WITH TWO FIGURES IN", WHICH HE BOUGHT WHILE IN MOBILE, ALABAMA, AT A COST OF $2.00, APRIL 14, 1838. HE EVIDENTLY DID NOT KNOW HWERE THE TYPE OF TYPICAL OF, AND SOMEONE TOLD HIM THIS ERRONEOUS INFORMATION. THE LANCE 10 3/16" LONG, WITH SPOOL HANDLE WAS TRANSFERRED BACK TO THE DIVISION OF ETHNOLOGY FROM THE DIV. OF ENGINEERING, JAN. 25, 1934. MADE OF BIRCHBARK, WITH SIMILAR HIGH PROW ON BOTH ENDS, NARROW RED DYED STRIP JUST BELOW THE GUNWHALE, AND SECTION OF EACH END PAINTED DARK GREEN. A LANCE HANDLE 11 9/16" L. WAS WITH THE SPECIMEN WHEN REMOVED FROM EXHIBIT DEC. 1955. THERE ARE TWO PADDLES ABOUT 7" L."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 8
place: label: Place
content: Northeast, United States (not certain) / Canada (not certain), 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: 68A00002
label: USNM Number
content: E2329-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe Model