Single-Hatch Bidarka
date: label: Accession Date
content: 3 Mar 1894
label: Collection Date
content: 1885
name: label: Collector
content: Charles H. Townsend
label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Commission of Fish & Fisheries
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Record says Kodiak Island Alaska, but Howard Chapelle says is Bristol Bay type. During storage back around 1900 this had been badly damaged. Refer: Collins MS. p. 767." Formerly Division of Engineering number 76285.
label: Notes
content: Collins Ms. identifies E398281 as a 15' long Kodiak kayak collected in 1885 at Kodiak Island by Charles H. Townsend of the U.S. Fish Commission. The accession file appears to list 398281 as Togiak rather than Kodiak, though it appears they may have mixed up E398280 / old # 76284 (16' 9" L.) and E398281 / old # 76285 (15' L.) in the accession file. The accession file also references another? Togiak kayak, but does not list its catalogue number. That one is identified as collected by Charles H. Townsend of the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross in the summer of 1891. While this may refer to E398281, it seems to more closely match the catalogue information for E398280 (old Engineering # 76284)?
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 177 p. 196 and described pp. 195-196, under old number 76285, in Adney, Tappan, and Howard Irving Chapelle. 1964. The bark canoes and skin boats of North America. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution (U.S. National Museum Bulletin 230).
label: Notes
content: Kayak is illustrated and described in detail in Golden, Harvey. 2015. Kayaks of Alaska. Portland, OR: White House Grocery Press: Plate 24A, p. 164; Plate 24B, p. 165; pp. 181 - 184. Golden identifies it as Aglurmiut Central Yup'ik from Togiak.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kodiak Island (not certain) / Togiak (not certain), Kodiak Islands (not certain) / Bristol Bay (not certain) / Togiak Bay (not certain), Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Alutiiq (Sugpiaq), Koniag (?)
label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 028022
label: USNM Number
content: E398281-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Kayak
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 38 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 81 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 5 m