Model Canoe With Outrigger
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 May 2013
label: Collection Date
content: 1972
name: label: Collector
content: Richard Feinberg
label: Donor Name
content: Richard Feinberg
notes: label: Notes
content: Tag: "Te kivaka mai: Pu Tokerau / Anuta Island / April 28, 1972." Carved wooden hull, with wood outrigger (detached). Triangular sail (detached from mast, but attached to rigging) made from woven pandanus lead.
label: Notes
content: Kivaka (model canoe) made as a toy for sailing on reef flat and trade object to sell to visitors. Rigged with traditional pandanus leaf sail. For names of parts, see Polynesian Seafaring and Navigation by R. Feinberg (1988). Canoe made by Pu Tokerau for Rick Feinberg, 28 April 1972. Sail from Pu Pareumutia. (Per curator Joshua Bell; notes from speaking to Feinberg, Aug 16, 2012.) The canoe was dismantled at Salem Peabody Museum. The outrigger is off and the sail bent, and the lashing for the canoe is loose.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Anuta Island, Solomon Islands, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Anutan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2059846
label: USNM Number
content: E433256-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe Model
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 81.3 cm
label: Width
content: 61 cm
label: Depth
content: 23 cm