Kayak
date: label: Accession Date
content: 3 Mar 1894
label: Collection Date
content: 1892
name: label: Collector
content: Ivan Petroff
label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Commission of Fish & Fisheries
label: Expedition
content: Albatross Expedition / U.S. Fish Commission
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "A single hatch 'bidarka' with covering aft of the manhole cut away to show the construction. Originally had the following accessories: paddle, walrus and seal spear, sealskin line, 2 spear throwers, 5 deer spears, 2 ivory-tipped hooks. Refer USNM Bull. 127, p. 209. Collins Ms. p. 742." Illus. (under Division of Engineering # 76283) in BAE 18th AR, Pt. 1, Pl. LXXIX, no. 1, after p. 220. Note that the cockpit coaming stanchions on this kayak are decorated with carved smiling and frowning faces. - F. Pickering 3-7-2008 Associated artifacts are Catalogue Nos. E168578 - 83.
label: Notes
content: From U.S. National Museum Bulletin 127, p. 209, entry on this artifact, under old number 76283: "Kaiak. Type used by the Eskimos of Nunivak Island, Alaska, for fishing and hunting. The boat is covered with the skin of the sea lion stretched over a light framework made of driftwood. It is sharp at both ends, the bow rising with a long, easy curve from the bottom, and at its upper extremity is a hole 7 inches in diameter for grasping with the lhand. The top of the kaiak is completely covered, excepting a single manhole in the center. Dimensions of boat. - Length. 15 feet 3 inches; beam, 30 inches; depth, 18 inches. Deposited by the Bureau of Fisheries."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 184, p. 199, under old number 76283, in Adney, Tappan, and Howard Irving Chapelle. 1964. The bark canoes and skin boats of North America. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution (U.S. National Museum Bulletin 230).
label: Notes
content: Kayak is illustrated and described in detail in Golden, Harvey. 2015. Kayaks of Alaska. Portland, OR: White House Grocery Press: Plate 29A, p. 171; Plate 29B, p. 172; pp. 192 - 195.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Nunivak Island, Bering Sea, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 028022
label: USNM Number
content: E307240-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Kayak
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 58 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 85.1 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 470 cm