Canoe And Outrigger With Paddle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Aug 1901
label: Collection Date
content: 21 Jan 1901 to 27 Jan 1901
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. William L. Abbott
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William L. Abbott
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "1 bundle of pegs, 1 coil of fiber + 1 stick found in storage + put w/ canoe. - L.L.E. 1982"
label: Notes
content: William Louis Abbott's collecting trip to the Nicobar Islands is described in: Kloss, C. Boden. 1903. In the Andamans and Nicobars; the narrative of a cruise in the schooner "Terrapin", with notices of the islands, their fauna, ethnology, etc. London: J. Murray. The visit to Car Nicobar was January 21-27, 1901, per Kloss. The typical canoes of Car Nicobar are described in general terms on pp. 53-54 and 60 of that publication, which is available online through Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36545/36545-h/36545-h.htm .
label: Notes
content: William Louis Abbott papers in the National Anthropological Archives, series 4, box 4, folder on Accession 38307, contains a description of this canoe from Car Nicobar: "Canoe and outrigger, with paddle, 3 pieces; made from one log; gunwales of split bamboo bound to the canoe with split rattan; thwarts, 17, round, bound to gunwales with split rattan; outrigger, 1 log, bow ornament in shape of two sword blades carved from one piece of wood, decorated with small figures of animals and painted red. Name of bow ornament, Misoka ap; the whole painted red. Length 11 feet, 10 inches, beam, 15 inches wide; outrigger 5 feet, 9 1/2 inches wide; paddle, 4 feet, 11 1/2 inches long."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 6
place: label: Place
content: Car Nicobar, Nicobar Islands, India, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Nicobarese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 038307
label: USNM Number
content: E211846-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe / Paddle
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 3.6 m
label: Width - Object
content: 0.38 m
label: Height - Object
content: 0.5 m