3-Hole Bidarka Or Kayak With Three Hunting Figures, Model
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1874
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Coast Survey
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "LONG NARROW, ROUND BOTTOM BOAT, UP CARVED BOW, SHARP STERN AND NARROWED TO THIN FIN LIKE PROJECTION. ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 54. 16,275. LOANED TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART OCTOBER 20, 1972. RETURNED 5-29-73." Illus. Fig. 138, p. 147 in Crowell, Aron, Amy F. Steffian, and Gordon L. Pullar. 2001. Looking both ways: heritage and identity of the Alutiiq people. Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Press.
label: Notes
content: Note that kayak model 16275 is mentioned as being used in an exhibit in Berlin in 1880 on p. 104 of USNM Bulletin No. 18.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=38, retrieved 8-28-2012: Kayak model, Sugpiaq (Alutiiq), Koniag. paitaalek "three-person kayak" - Language: Koniag Sugpiaq (Kodiak Island dialect) The Sugpiaq qayaq (or baidarka, in Russian) was made in one-, two-, and three-hatch designs. Single-hatch boats were for pursuit of fast game like porpoises, while double-hatch kayaks allowed the man in front to use a harpoon, dart, or gun while the stern paddler steadied the boat. Three-hatch kayaks, invented after Russian contact, were used for hunting but also to convey fur traders or village chiefs as passengers in the middle seat. Fore and aft paddlers in this model have spruce-root hats and the central figure wears a hunting helmet shaped like a seal's head. [The figures also wear gutskin parkas.]
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. The 3 paddles for canoe model are on loan and mounted separately to kayak model.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 8
place: label: Place
content: Kodiak Island, Kodiak Islands, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Alutiiq (Sugpiaq), Koniag
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 003195
label: USNM Number
content: E16275-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Kayak Model
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 51 cm