Outrigger Canoe (Model)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 31 Dec 1968
label: Collection Date
content: Ca. 1944
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Henry S. Rouse
notes: label: Notes
content: HOLLOWED LOG SECTION FOR MOST OF HULL, WITH ATTACHED GUNWALE STRIPS, AND SMALL CARVED SECTION AT EACH END, ALSO BIRDS BEAK IN ONE OF LATTER. FLAT OUTRIGGER FLOOR THAT IS TIED ACROSS CENTER ALSO HAS SHORT UPRIGHT FRAMEWORK ATTACHED TO INNER END. ALONG EACH SIDE A ROW OF RED AND BLACK INCISINGS THAT MAY REPRESENT BIRDS. OUTER BOOM OF OUTRIGGER IS LOOSE, AND ONE SET OF FASTENINGS MISSING. REPAIRED, WITH MISSING PARTS RESTORED 2/7/69 NOTE: 5/23/95, ACCORDING TO ROBERT WELSCH, ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE CURATOR, FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, "THIS OBJECT IS A CANOE MODEL OF THE STYLE MADE AND USED IN AREA FROM VANIMO TO JAYAPURA (FORMERLY HOLLANDIA). IT IS NOT AT ALL LIKE THOSE FROM LAE AREA. THIS LOOKS LIKE A SERVICEMAN'S WARTIME COLLECTION, AND IT IS MOST LIKELY A PIECE COLLECTED AROUND HOLLANDIA (MACARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS) TOWARD END OF WAR, 1944."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Mar 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Lae (near), New Guinea / Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 281588
label: USNM Number
content: E410717-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe Model
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 75.3 cm