Sleigh, Large Size
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1840
name: label: Collector
content: Captain Reuben Joy Jr.
label: Collector
content: United States Exploring Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM PEALE CATALOGUE: KAMTSCHATKAN DOG SLEIGH. PRESENTED TO THE EX EX AT HONOLULU, OAHU [HAWAII] BY CAPT. [NAME OMITTED] 1840. (NOTE THAT THE BLANK FOR CAPTAIN'S NAME WAS LEFT BY PEALE - ORIGINAL SHIPPING LIST READS 'PRESENTED BY CAPT. JOY OF SHIP HERO OF NANTUCKET'.
label: Notes
content: There were whaling grounds off the Kamchatka Peninsula. The Captain Joy referred should be Captain Reuben Joy, Jr., captain of the Nantucket whaling ship "Hero." See p. 31, "Ships sailed in 1837" entry on the ship "Hero" in Hussey & Robinson (Firm). 1876. Catalogue of Nantucket whalers: and their voyages from 1815 to 1870. Nantucket: Hussey & Robinson, printers and publishers. This indicates a whaling trip to the Pacific by the "Hero" under command of Captain Reuben Joy, Jr. from 1837 - 1841. There are records of Joy signing on a Native Hawaiian as a sailor on the "Hero" in Hawaii in November 1840. (Hawaiian Government (1840), Hawaiian Shipping Articles, Bark Hero, November 26, 1840, Interior Department, Box 53, Folder: Shipping---Hawaiian Seamen, 1840-1858, Hawaii State Archives, Honolulu.)
label: Notes
content: For comparative purposes, see illustrations of similar sleds seen in Kamchatka, Russia on Captain James Cook's third voyage 1779-1780, which were published in the French edition of Cook's Voyages. See "Traineau Des Kamtchadales", which can be viewed online here: http://calypso.bib.umontreal.ca/u?/_gravu,143 . (The Itelmen, sometimes known as Kamchadal, are an ethnic group who are the original inhabitants living on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia.) See also "Homme Du Kamtchatka Voyageant En Hiver", which can be viewed online here: http://calypso.bib.umontreal.ca/u?/_gravu,170 . This shows a man riding one of these types of sleds being pulled by a team of 5 dogs. Full book citation: Cook, James, James King, and De´meunier. 1785. Troisie'me voyage de Cook, ou Voyage a l'oce´an Pacifique: ordonne´ par le roi d'Angleterre, pour faire des de´couvertes dans l'he´misphere nord, pour de´terminer la position & l'e´tendue de la co^te ouest de l'Ame´rique Septentrionale, sa distance de l'Asie, & re´soudre la question du passage au nord : Exe´cute´ sous la direction des capitaines Cook, Clerke & Gore, sur les vaisseaux la Re´solution & la De´couverte, en 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 & 1780. Paris: Ho^tel de Thou. The two illustrations are facing p. 145 (described p. 145-146) and facing p. 143 in the publication.
label: Notes
content: Catalog card is missing from the card file. Card information that follows is taken from a xerox copy of the card: "Double hood of brown leather, slashed and drawn through with particolored leather thongs so that there is a semblance of weaving-elevated above splayed legs mounted on skis or Norwegian-style snowshoes. Size: L. ca. 250.0 cms. W. ca. 48.5 cms. H. does not exceed 90.0 cms."
label: Notes
content: On p. 21 of National Institute for the Promotion of Science, W. (1855). A popular catalogue of the extraordinary curiosities in the National Institute, arranged in the building belonging to the Patent Office. Washington: A. Hunter, Peale # 115 is described: "Dog sled from the frozen regions of Kamtschatka; can carry two persons, is extremely strong, weighs 26 pounds - for six dogs."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Dec 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kamchatka, Siberia, Russia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2811-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sled
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 89 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 51 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 2.54 m