Canoe Model
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: United States Exploring Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: WOODEN MODEL OF THE HULL PORTION OF AN OUTRIGGER CANOE, THE OUTRIGGER IS MISSING. TWO WOODEN STICKS WHICH WERE APPARENTLY WHAT CONNECTED THE OUTRIGGER ARE INCLUDED INSIDE OF THIS HULL. PEALE CATALOGUE IDENTIFIES THIS AS SAMOAN. OBJECT HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED SUBSEQUENTLY ON THE CATALOGUE CARD AS FIJIAN, BUT THIS IS NOT CERTAIN.
label: Notes
content: Adrienne Kaeppler, Curator for Oceania Ethnology, says this is Samoan.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 May 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: American Samoa (not certain), Samoa (not certain) / United States (not certain), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Samoan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2992-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe Model
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 65 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 5.1 cm