Dugout Canoe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Jun 1905
name: label: Donor Name
content: Philippine Commission, Louisiana Purchase Exposition
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "With mast and sail. Transferred to Div. of Engineering, 1964 returned to Ethnology. Originally this had: rudder with tiller, bamboo mast, 11'1" L, canvas sail, bamboo guys. (rudder had been broken from post."
label: Notes
content: Accession file indicates this was transferred from the Division of Ethnology to the Division of Technology in July 1905. Description of this object in August 15, 1905 Division of Technology list in accession file calls it: "Dugout canoe. Straight sides; high stem and stern; rudder with tiller; step for mast set well forward. Bamboo mast 11 feet 1 inch long; canvas sail; bamboo guys. Rudder broken from post. Length of canoe 14 feet 1 inch, width 2 feet, depth 11 inches." A paragraph at the end of this list notes the confused and lacking documentation for this and the other boats in the collection. Catalogue ledger book notes this was transferred to the Division of Engineering, though no date for the transfer is given. Accession file also indicates this object was officially transferred from the Division of Transporation to the Division of Ethnology, Department of Anthropology, in 1965.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Philippines
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Filipino
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 044455
label: USNM Number
content: E235230-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 52.1 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 64.8 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 438.2 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 429 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 1 m
label: Depth - Object
content: 28 cm