Dugout Canoe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Jun 1905
name: label: Donor Name
content: Philippine Commission, Louisiana Purchase Exposition
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Transferred to Div. of Engineering, 1964 returned to Ethnology. Across the middle is a board with a hole for the mast, along the sides is a narrow platform of tongue and groove construction which appeared to be of non native work."
label: Notes
content: Accession file indicates this was transferred from the Division of Ethnology to the Division of Technology in July 1905. Description of this object in August 15, 1905 Division of Technology list in accession file calls it: "Dugout canoe. Narrow dugout with high stem and stern; braced with round wooden sticks; 16 feet 9 inches long, 21 1/2 inches wide, 10 inches deep. Across the middle is a board with hole for mast and built along the sides is a narrow platform made of tongue-and-groove boards of a decidedly modern ... appearance and looking like a recent addition to a primitive [sic] boat. No masts or appliances of any kind received with this boat." A paragraph at the end of this list notes the confused and lacking documentation for this and the other boats in the collection. Accession file also indicates this object was officially transferred from the Division of Transporation to the Division of Ethnology, Department of Anthropology, in 1965.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Philippines
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Filipino
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 044455
label: USNM Number
content: E235231-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 36.8 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 54.6 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 505 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 511 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 54.6 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 25 cm