Birchbark Canoe Model
name: label: Collector
content: Robert Bell
label: Donor Name
content: Accession Number Unknown
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "AN OPEN, ROUND-BOTTOMED, KEELLESS CANOE, WITH FLARING SIDES; LONG, SHARP, HIGH ENDS, CURVING IN TOWARD CENTER AT TOP; STRAIGHT ON TOP, EXCEPT AT END WHERE GUNWALES TURN SHARPLY, AND ALMOST VERTICALLY, UPWARD; 7 CROSS BARS OR GUNWALE SUPPORTS; EQUIPPED WITH PADDLES HAVING OAR-SHAPED BLADES; CANOE MADE BY COVERING LIGHT FRAME WITH BREADTHS OF BIRCH BARK, SEWN TOGETHER WITH ROOT FIBER AND PITCHED ON SEAMS; THE WHOLE FASTENED TO GUNWALES WITH SEIZINGS OF FIBER. [SEE] COLLINS [MS. P.] 866".
label: Notes
content: In damaged condition. Anthropology catalogue ledger book entry notes this as of the type "used on Lake Superior", so possibly could be Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe)??
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Jun 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Eastern, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Indian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000000
label: USNM Number
content: E55816-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe Model