Canoe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Jan 1899
label: Collection Date
content: 1895
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Department Of Interior
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MADE OF BIRCH BARK; POORLY BUILT." This birch bark canoe was formerly on exhibit in NMNH Exhibit Hall 9, case 10, from 1957 - 2004. Exhibit captions identify the prow piece as white cedar, the gunwales as spruce, the gunwale lacing as spruce root, the thwarts as spruce, the flooring as white cedar, the sewing as spruce root and the caulking as spruce gum.
label: Notes
content: Letters from F.W. Clarke of the Department of the Interior in the accession file dated June 10, 1896 and Jan. 11, 1899 indicate that the canoe is Chippewa from the White Earth Agency in Minnesota. It was purchased for exhibit in the Bureau of Indian Affairs display at the Cotton States and International Exposition of 1895 in Atlanta. After being displayed in Atlanta it was then deposited, but not formally gifted, at the Smithsonian. The Department of the Interior borrowed it back for exhibit at the Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition of 1897 in Nashville and the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898 in Omaha. A December 23, 1898 memo in the accession file notes that it fell from the roof of the Omaha building during a storm and was "considerably damaged." It was after the canoe returned from Omaha that it was officially accessioned by the Smithsonian.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Apr 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, White Earth Reservation, Minnesota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 034567
label: USNM Number
content: E178835-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 439 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 43 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 91 cm