Canoe Model
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Aug 2002
label: Collection Date
content: 1848 to 1852
name: label: Collector
content: Colonel C. B. Dyneley
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William C. Sturtevant
notes: label: Notes
content: 1/5. MINIATURE BIRCH BARK CANOE WITH SIDES OF BOAT DECORATED IN RED AND BLUE PIGMENT IN ST. FRANCIS-ABENAKI STYLE (SEE ADNEY, EDWARD T. "THE BARK CANOES AND SKIN BOATS OF NORTH AMERICAN: PP. 92-93). BLUE PIGMENT COVERS EARLIER GREEN PIGMENT. HAS GREEN PIGMENT STRIPE IN MIDDLE OF EACH RIB. HAS COTOTN AND PLANT FIBER LASHINGS. BARK HAS BEGUN TO CRACK. ADHESIVE USED ON BOW AND STERN SEAMS AND ALSO ON CANOE SIDE GORE SEAMS. FOUR RED DYED WOODEN STEERING POLES, ALL .25 CM. DA. PURCHASED WITH TWO OTHER CANOE MODELS IN CATALOG NOS. E430521 AND E430522 BY WILLIAM C. STURTEVANT FOR THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ANTHROPOLOGY DEPT. COLLECTION AT AUCTION IN 1987 FOR 320 BRITISH POUNDS. 2/5 - STEERING POLE. STEERING POLE. 4/5 STEERING POLE. 5/5 STEERING POLE.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 5
place: label: Place
content: Ontario / Quebec, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 378683
label: USNM Number
content: E430520-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe Model / Canoe Pole Model
physicalDescription: label: Length - 1 Of 5, Canoe
content: 37 cm
label: Width - 1 Of 5, Canoe
content: 6 cm
label: Height - 1 Of 5, Canoe
content: 4.5 cm
label: Length - 2 Of 5, Steering Pole
content: 26 cm
label: Length - 3 Of 5, Steering Pole
content: 26 cm
label: Length - 4 Of 5, Steering Pole
content: 24 cm
label: Length - 5 Of 5, Steering Pole
content: 21 cm