Kayak
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Nov 1883
label: Collection Date
content: 1882
name: label: Collector
content: Lt P.H. Ray
label: Collector
content: John Murdoch
label: Collector
content: Middleton Smith
label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Signal Service
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Known as the "north Alaskan type." Refer: BAE Ann. Rep. No. 9, p. 328-30, ill." Identified on card as old Division of Engineering No. 57773. As indicated above, on the catalogue card this kayak is identified as the one illustrated and described in pp. 328-31 of the BAE 9th Annual Report, Fig. 338. The publication identifies this kayak as Catalogue No. 57773, field number 539, however the catalogue number for field number 539 is 56773, not 57773 (and note that card/record for E56773 IDs it as a kayak, which is now not found in the collections). So, *if* this identification of 56773 is correct, this kayak would be part of accession no. 13712 (rather than accession no. 19774), and paddle # 89246 would go with it. It has been changed to accession number 13712 as a consequence. - F. Pickering 4-25-2013 See Collins Boat Ms., p. 733, which notes that kayak 307211 once had a number of accessories, including an atlatl. As of 2008, only the kayak and atlatl have been located.
label: Notes
content: This kayak, under number 57773, 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. The shipping invoice lists an accession number for this kayak of 19774, which, as noted above, is probably not the correct accession number.
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 187, p. 201, and Figs. 189 and 190, p. 202, and described pp. 200-202, under old number 57773, in Adney, Tappan, and Howard Irving Chapelle. 1964. The bark canoes and skin boats of North America. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution (U.S. National Museum Bulletin 230).
label: Notes
content: Kayak is illustrated and described in detail in Golden, Harvey. 2015. Kayaks of Alaska. Portland, OR: White House Grocery Press: Plate 67, p. 320; pp. 335 - 338; Figure 568i, p. 421.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Point Barrow, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inupiaq
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 013712
label: USNM Number
content: E307211-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Kayak / Atlatl
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 39.4 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 52.1 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 546 cm