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: "Long, narrow, heavy dugout, roughly made, with straight sides; high, sharp stem and stern. Was curated in Div. of Engin. for years. Transfer fr. Div. of Eng. Aug. 28, 1943."
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. Long, narrow, heavy dugout, roughly made, straight sides, high, sharp stem and stern. 39 feet 6 inches long, 3 feet 4 inches wide, 2 feet 1 inch deep." A paragraph at the end of this list notes the confused and lacking documentation for this and the other boats in the collection. A memo dated December 20, 1920 in the accession file notes that this boat at that time was one of four placed on display outside along the south wall of the Arts and Industries Building at that time, between the southeast pavilion and south tower, had been transferred to the space between the south tower and the southwest pavilion. It notes that the boat had " ... been thoroughly overhauled and the decayed portions of the wood replaced with new wood, and the entire surfaces ... given a heavy coat of linseed oil and wax, and a second coat of Valspar varnish." It also notes that in order to prevent rain water from collecting in the bottom, that additional holes were bored through at all the low points.
label: Notes
content: A memo from 1941 in accession file 23888 indicates that this boat was formerly displayed as part of the Division of Engineering collections outside of the Arts and Industries Building. A 1943 memo is accession file indicates it was placed in the West Court of the Natural History Museum in 1941 and transferred to the Department of Anthropology in 1943. Some 1941 paperwork related to this is also in accession file 44455.
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: E235303-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 12 m
label: Width - Object
content: 1.1 m
label: Height - Object
content: 1.1 m
label: Length - Object
content: 1204 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 102 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 64 cm