Kayak
date: label: Accession Date
content: 27 Nov 1894
label: Collection Date
content: 1894
name: label: Collector
content: Henry G. Bryant
label: Collector
content: Peary Auxiliary Expedition of 1894
label: Donor Name
content: Henry G. Bryant
label: Expedition
content: Peary Arctic Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "from the Peary Auxiliary Expedition." This Polar Greenland kayak is illustrated and described in detail in pp. 447-448 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.
label: Notes
content: From J.W. Collins Manuscript on Boat Collections in the U.S. National Museum, 1895, p. 823, entry on this artifact: "Greenland kaiak. Used by the Eskimo of Inglefield Gulf, North Greenland - "the Arctic High Lands" - who are the most northern inhabitants of Greenland. Full size. Northern Greenland, 1894. Collected by Dr. Henry G. Bryant of the Peary Auxiliary Exposition [sic, should be Expedition], 1894. A flat bottomed, decked, keeless, skin canoe; with long sharp overhanging bow; moderately flaring sides; sharp overhanging very shallow stern; deck flat and straight on top; irregularly shaped manhole a little abaft amidships; long double-bladed paddle with two hand grasps. Dimensions of kaiak: Length, 17 feet 3 inches; beam, 22 inches; depth, 9 1/2 inches. This kaiak closely resembles those built and used by the Eskimo of Hudson Strait, northern Labrador, and might be considered as coming from that region except for the identification furnished by Dr. Bryant who notes that it "shows crudeness of construction as contrasted with the more finished work of South Greenland.""
label: Notes
content: Kayak was formerly numbered 169047 (and 169046). Though the catalogue indicated that this kayak had an associated paddle, none had been located with it as of 2012. However, there is one Greenland style double blade paddle in the collections misnumbered 160398. It has been decided to change the number of that paddle to E160388, on the assumption that it is most likely the paddle that belongs with kayak E160388. An alternate number would be E160328, but since that Greenland kayak was transferred to the Illinois State Museum in 1947, it has been decided to call this paddle E160388 for now.
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 205, p. 210, and described p. 206, 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: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: North, Greenland
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit, North Greenland Inuit / Inughuit (Polar Eskimo)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 028742
label: USNM Number
content: E160388-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Kayak / Kayak Paddle
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 30 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 58 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 531 cm