Model Of Outrigger Canoe "Barurua"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 2 Feb 1945
label: Collection Date
content: 1941
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. V W T McGusty
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. V W T McGusty
notes: label: Notes
content: From catalog card: "Model of a sea-going, single outrigger plank canoe made by a Tarawa man about 1940. Equipped with lateen triangular mat sail, movable mast, spars, steering oar and 3 paddles. Planks ... secured ... with lashings of sinnet... See: Journ. Roy. Archeo. Soc. of G.B. and Ireland, issue of Jan.-June, 1924, article by Grimble on "Canoes in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands."'
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Mar 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tarawa Atoll, Kiribati Islands, Kiribati, Micronesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Micronesian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 168569
label: USNM Number
content: E383612-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe Model
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 21.6 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 61 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 132 cm