Dugout Canoe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Jul 1905
name: label: Donor Name
content: Brazilian Commission, Louisiana Purchase Exposition
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Gift of Brazilian Commission, St. Louis Exposition, July 17, 1905. Transfer from Div. of Eng[ineering] Aug. 28, 1943. Dugout of very heavy, thick redwood, thick bottom and sides; strip 3 inches wide along the edges; three heavy, arched braces with galvanized iron fittings for masts; seat at stern; sides straight or curing inwards; high stem, square stern with iron fittings for rudder which is 26 inches long and squared at top to fit tiller which is missing. Two sections of open flooring; 4-fluke anchor fastened to ring in the bow by long chain. Appliances are: 2 oars, 12' 4" l.; one mast, 25' 4" l.; one mast, 20' 5" l.; one pole, 17' 7" long; one pole, 14' 4" l."
label: Notes
content: Accession file 44455 has a list that includes this boat and indicates this was transferred from the Division of Ethnology to the Division of Technology in July 1905. A memo dated December 20, 1920 in accession file 44455 notes that this boat at that time was one of four placed on display outside along the south wall of the Arts and Industries Building at that time, between the southeast pavilion and south tower, and had been transferred to the space between the south tower and the southwest pavilion. It notes that the boat had " ... been thoroughly overhauled and the decayed portions of the wood replaced with new wood, and the entire surfaces ... given a heavy coat of linseed oil and wax, and a second coat of Valspar varnish." It also notes that it was raised for viewing at that time with three heavy wooden blocks on which were bolted three wrought iron saddles. Also, in order to prevent rain water from collecting in the bottom, that additional holes were bored through at all the low points.
label: Notes
content: A memo from 1941 in accession file 23888 indicates that this boat was formerly displayed as part of the Division of Engineering collections outside of the Arts and Industries Building. A 1943 memo is the accession file indicates it was placed in the West Court of the Natural History Museum in 1941 and transferred to the Department of Anthropology in 1943. Some 1941 paperwork related to this is also in accession file 44455. Canoe is currently in two pieces.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Brazilian
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 044419
label: USNM Number
content: E236501-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe
physicalDescription: label: Length - Stern
content: 9 m
label: Width - Stern
content: 1 m
label: Height - Stern
content: 1 m
label: Length - Bow
content: 8.92 m
label: Width - Bow
content: 0.9 m
label: Height - Bow
content: 1 m