Toboggan Model
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Aug 2002
label: Collection Date
content: 1848 to 1852
name: label: Collector
content: Colonel C. B. Dyneley
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William C. Sturtevant
notes: label: Notes
content: MINIATURE TOBOGGAN SLED WITH CARGO STRAPPED ON INCLUDING CARGO COVERED IN GREEN FLANNEL CLOTH, AND A WOODEN MODEL OF A LONG RIFLE AND BUCKET. HOOD DECORATED WITH RED PAINTED IROQUOIS-STYLE SCROLL DESIGNS. THERE IS A HAND WRITTEN NOTE IN THE ACCESSION RECORDS FROM MARY DYNELEY VIGORS THAT DISCUSSES MODELS OF GUN CARRIAGE SLEIGHS MADE BY SOLDIERS THAT MAY OR NAY NOT RELATE TO THIS TOBOGGAN. PURCHASED BY WILLIAM C. STURTEVANT FOR THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ANTHROPOLOGY DEPT. COLLECTION AT AUCTION IN 1987 AS PART OF LOT 297 WHICH INCLUDED ONE OTHER TOBOGGAN (CAT. NO. E430525) AND THREE BIRCH CANOES (CAT. NOS. E430520-E430522).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Ontario / Quebec, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 378683
label: USNM Number
content: E430526-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sled Model
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 34 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 5 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 5 cm