Kayak
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Jan 1883
label: Collection Date
content: 1882
name: label: Collector
content: Maj. William M. Beebe JR.
label: Collector
content: Greely Relief Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Department Of War
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Light wood frame, lashed with sealskin thongs, covered with sealskin, high pointed ends tipped with ivory. Originally had: harpoon shaft and line, lance, spear, paddle, buoy, ice scraper, harpoon head, but these were not with it when in Engineering Dept. Collins Ms. p. 825." This West Greenland kayak is illustrated and described in detail in pp. 234-236 of "Kayaks of Greenland: The History and Development of the Greenlandic Hunting Kayak, 1600-2000" by Harvey Golden, 2006, White House Grocery Press, Portland, OR. A copy of the relevant pages is filed in Anthropology Processing Lab accession file.
label: Notes
content: Associated parts for this kayak are catalogue nos. E72565 through E72574.
label: Notes
content: Illus. Figs. 201 and 202, p. 208, and Figs. 203 and 204, p. 209, in Adney, Tappan, and Howard Irving Chapelle. 1964. The bark canoes and skin boats of North America. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution (U.S. National Museum Bulletin 230).
label: Notes
content: See p. 13 in the Smithsonian Institution Annual Report for the year 1882, which notes that the commander of the 1882 Greely Relief Expedition, William M. Beebe, Jr., brought back a "... skin boat, which has been deposited by the Chief Signal Officer [i.e. General William Babcock Hazen] in the National Museum." This may refer to kayak # E72564.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: West / Disko Bay, Greenland
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit, Greenland Inuit
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 83A00005
label: USNM Number
content: E72564-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Kayak
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 51 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 56 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 5 m