Partial Dugout Canoe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Jul 1976
label: Collection Date
content: 1972
name: label: Collector
content: Richard Kordish
label: Collector
content: Mr. Edward Kordish
label: Donor Name
content: Richard Kordish
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "This is the partial remains of a boat dugout from a single log. As it now remains it is a section of log flat at one end and sloping to a thicker section at the other. Though there is a slight hollow, nothing else is left of a definite shape. The tool marks on it appear to be from steel blades and Carbon 14 tests were inconclusive, showing it to be 200 - 300 B.P."
label: Notes
content: This dugout was originally miscatalogued as being found in Lake Bryn Mawr, near Honesdale, Pennsylvania. This misidentification was based on a newspaper article in the accession file which described a different dugout found around the same time in a nearby county. In 2008, the donor's nephew, John Kordish, contacted the Smithsonian to inquire about the object. At that time the correct provenience information was established.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fleetville / Handsome Pond, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 322227
label: USNM Number
content: E418259-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 450 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 69 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 30 cm