Birchbark Canoe, Model
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1894
name: label: Collector
content: J. H. Turner
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=247 , retrieved 8-19-2012: Athabascan families used birchbark canoes from spring break-up until the rivers and lakes froze in the fall, for hunting, fishing, and moving from camp to camp. The canoes were paddled, poled, and sometimes sailed. Dog teams pulled them upriver, the dogs trotting on the bank or swimming ahead of the boat. This model shows a fore-decked Yukon River canoe equipped with a bone-pronged fishing spear and a long-handled net hook. Canoe makers stitched the bark hull together with split spruce roots then built the birch or willow wood frame inside. They sealed the seams with hot spruce sap.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. Only canoe model and fish spear on loan - additional parts (sail and hook) not on loan.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 8
place: label: Place
content: Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ingalik (Deg Xitʼan, Degexitʼan, Deg Hit'an)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 027937
label: USNM Number
content: E153659-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe Model
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 106 cm