Canoe, With 2 Paddles
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Apr 1894
label: Collection Date
content: 1893
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Walter J. Hoffman
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "See Collins ms., pg. 843. [Lent to] A Nation of Nations 12/75. Loan returned Aug 1988. Lent to NMAH Butler Bldg. Storage facility 6/22/89. Returned July 24, 2000." Canoe has an old exhibit sign stored with it identifying it as birch bark and listing old number of 168192, which is also listed on the card and in the Collins Manuscript. Canoe is listed in U.S. National Museum Bulletin 127, p. 214 under old number 168192. The catalog card lists the accession number as 28062, but this is incorrect. According to the accession records, the correct accession for this canoe is 28091.
label: Notes
content: From Collins Ms. p. 843, under old # 168192: "Wisconsin Birch Bark Canoe. Used by Ojibwa Indians of Wisconsin. Full size. Wisconsin, 1893. Collected by W. J. Hoffman, U.S. Geological Survey. An open, sharp ended, round bottom, keeless canoe; ends turned up and curved inward; false gunwales nailed on. 2 single-bladed paddles with oar-shaped blades. Dimensions of canoe: - Length, 13 feet; beam, 3 feet; depth, 10 1/2 inches."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Jan 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Wisconsin, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 028091
label: USNM Number
content: E160387-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe / Canoe Paddle
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 406 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 91 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 28 cm