Dugout Canoe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Sep 1954
name: label: Donor Name
content: National Geographic Society
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Made by Charlie Cypress, in about 3 weeks. Photograph in January 1940 issue of National Geographic Journal, page 132, showing a Seminole Indian, his wife, child and household goods poling this boat with aid of an improvised sail. Excavated from a cypress log with adze and brace and bit and worked to a smooth surface. Flat, rounded slightly raised stern, sharp, vertical, raised bow, flat bottom. Marginal upper band, also water line painted black. Capacity 450-500 lbs."
label: Notes
content: The complete National Geographic reference is John O'Reilly, "South Florida's Amazing Everglades," National Geographic 77, no. 1 (January 1940), p. 132. The boat in the photo is the same form as E392721, but the exterior of the boat in the photo appears to have white paint on it.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Big Cypress Reservation, Florida, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Seminole, Mikasuki (Miccosukee)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 203036
label: USNM Number
content: E392721-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 43 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 46 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 528 cm