Kayak Paddle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 27 Oct 1994
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. James A. Ford
label: Collector
content: Sgt. Stanley Morgan
label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: FOUND IN "SCHOOL COLLECTION" STORAGE AREA.PROPOSED FOR ACCESSIONING BY WILLIAM FITZHUGH, CURATOR, 7 OCT 1994 ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT IT MIGHT BE SUBSEQUENTLY IDENTIFIED. ONE DOUBLE BLADE PADDLE FOUND WITHIN KAYAK (CAT NO E428707) STORED IN THE SCHOOL COLLECTION AREA.
label: Notes
content: Per Harvey Golden, 2013, kayak E428707 may have belonged to James A. Ford. See remarks for E428707.
label: Notes
content: An alternate possible provenance for kayak E428707 is that it could be Catalogue No. E364758, from loan accession 122301, Stanley Morgan collection, which was identified as a canvas covered kayak from the Barrow area, i.e. North Alaskan Inupiaq. The Morgan collection came to the museum in 1932 through James A. Ford.
label: Notes
content: Kayak paddle is illustrated and described in detail on p. 502 in Golden, Harvey. 2015. Kayaks of Alaska. Portland, OR: White House Grocery Press. Attributed there as a North Alaskan Inupiaq kayak paddle.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: North Alaska (not certain), Alaska (not certain), United States (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inupiaq
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 400221
label: USNM Number
content: E428708-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Kayak Paddle