Model Of A Double Canoe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: Hardwood model of a rounded bottomed, double- hulled, sea-going canoe with a large raised platform attached to both hulls. The platform has openings or hatchways, and may once have had a cabin on top, and a mast and sail. The canoes are dugouts with wooden covers sewn to the sides of dugout logs by means of coconut fiber. Has original Peale tag; also written on canoe, "Sandwich I." Publication: an illustration of this canoe, or one very similar in the "Narrative Of The United States Exploring Expedition, Charles Wilkes, 1845, vol. III, p. 365. The old catalogue card gives a long description, and includes "...strings of white beads hang from the projecting end of the platform." these strings are no longer attached to the boat, and apparently missing, 1989. Exhibited Magnificent Voyagers, National Museum Of Natural History, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: From card: "Made of mahogany; the two canoes dug out of logs, unpainted; round bottom; cylindrical ends (one end of one canoe is slightly flattened), which are covered, very sharp and pointed. The boats are connected by a raised platform, which projects over the outer edges of both canoes, and one end, which is comparatively narrow (3 inches wide), extends out nearly abreast of the canoe ends. Hatch-ways are made in each side of the platform so that the men on board can reach the interior of the canoes. Strings of white beads hang from the projecting end of the platform. DIMENSIONS: Length of canoes 22' beam of each 2 1/4"; height, to lower side of platform amidships 3"; extreme width of platform 9 3/4", extreme legth 15", length of widest part 8 1/4"; extreme width of model, to ends of spreaders (which are lashed to platform and extend out each side as supports to rigging) 22". This model closely resembles the canoes used by the natives of the Fiji Islands, as described by Rev. J. G. Wood."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies the Tongan name for this type of canoe as "calia". The name is currently rendered as "kalia."
label: Notes
content: Illustrated Figure 17.8a p. 266 and discussed p. 265 in Kaeppler, Adrienne L. 2019. "A Kato Mosi Kaka and other Treasures from Tonga from the US Exploring Expedition." In Collecting and Provenance: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach. Milosch, Jane and Pearce, Nick, editors. 257–268. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. Identified as kalia model canoe.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Sep 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Tongatapu Group, Tonga, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tongan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3585-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe Model
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 67.5 cm
label: Unknown - Object
content: 55 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 24 cm