Kayak
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Oct 1879
label: Collection Date
content: 1878
name: label: Collector
content: N P. Scudder
label: Donor Name
content: N P. Scudder
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "DESCRIBED P. 212 BULLETIN 127 USNM." This West Greenland kayak is illustrated and described in detail in pp. 232-234 of "Kayaks of Greenland: The History and Development of the Greenlandic Hunting Kayak, 1600-2000" by Harvey Golden, 2006, White House Grocery Press, Portland, OR. A copy of the relevant pages is filed in Anthropology Processing Lab accession file Per Harvey Golden, 3-5-2008, the end knob tied with string to the large double bladed paddle stored with kayak # E129576 may actually go with kayak # E35667 ?
label: Notes
content: As of 2008, one single blade paddle is stored with the kayak, and noted to have been found inside the kayak when the kayak was moved from the Garber Butler Building to MSC, but it is unclear if it actually really belongs with this kayak?
label: Notes
content: From old tag stored with the kayak: "35,667 - Collins 826. Greenland Kaiak, Holstenberg, 1878. Collected by N.P. Scudder. 17 ft, 3 in. l., 19 in. wide. All fixtures missing except one double paddle." From p. 212 of U.S. National Museum Bulletin 127: "Kaiak. Type used by the Eskimos on the west coast of Greenland. The boat has sharp pointed ends shod with bone: has rising floor, nearly vertical sides: moderate sheer at bow, but stern rises higher. The covered deck is flat except forward of the central manhole. Dimensions of boat. - Length 17 feet 3 inches; beam 19 inches; depth, 7 1/2 inches. Collected by N. P. Scudder."
label: Notes
content: This kayak 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: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Holsteinberg (Holsteinsborg, Sisimiut), West Greenland, Greenland
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit, Greenland Inuit
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 79A00055
label: USNM Number
content: E35667-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Kayak / Kayak Paddle
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 30 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 48 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 5.3 m