Dugout Canoe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Feb 1894
label: Collection Date
content: ca. 1891
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. George T. Emmons
label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Department Of Interior
notes: label: Notes
content: THIS BOAT IS DIV. OF ENGINEERING #76314. WHEN IT CAME TO ANTHROPOLOGY FROM ENGINEERING IT APPEARS NEVER TO HAVE BEEN GIVEN AN ANTHROPOLOGY CATALOG NUMBER. AFTER CONSERVATION TREATMENT, IT WAS CALLED C1296. HOWEVER, IT HAS #760353 (OR 160353) PAINTED ON IT. AS 160353 IS AN UNUSED NUMBER IN THE ANTHROPOLOGY BOAT SERIES, THIS BOAT HAS BEEN CALLED THIS NUMBER FOR NOW TO IDENTIFY IT. - F. PICKERING AND A. THOMSON 9-30-1998. FROM COLLINS' SMITHSONIAN BOAT COLLECTION MS. P. 896: "USED BY THE INDIANS OF SOUTHERN ALASKA. FULL SIZE. AN OPEN, ROUND BOTTOM, KEELESS, DUGOUT CANOE; FLARING SIDES; SHARP HOLLOW RAKING ENDS, PROJECTING UPWARDS; MODERATE SHEER, BROKEN BY REFLEX CURVE AT ENDS; PAINTED BLACK WITH EXCEPTION OF RED AND WHITE TRANSVERSE STRIPES NEAR EXTREME ENDS. PLACE FOR MAST NEAR BOW." ACCESSION RECORD DESCRIBES IT AS "MEDIUM RIGED DUGOUT PAINTED BLACK." ACCESSION RECORD INDICATES IT WAS ONE OF TWO CANOES COLLECTED BY LT. GEORGE THORNTON EMMONS U.S.N., IN SOUTHEAST ALASKA, FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S EXHIBITION (INTERIOR DEPARTMENT'S ALASKA DISPLAY) AT THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION, CHICAGO, 1893. THE OTHER CANOE IS # 168115. COLLECTION DATE FOR CANOE 160353 IS PRESUMED TO BE CA. 1891 OR BEFORE, AS IT WAS FOR 168115. COMPUTER CATALOG DATA RECORD CREATED BASED ON ACCESSION RECORD, COLLINS MS. AND RECORD FOR BOAT #168115.
label: Notes
content: No catalog card was made for this object.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 May 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Southeast, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 027833
label: USNM Number
content: E160353-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe
physicalDescription: label: Length - Overall
content: 5.6 m
label: Length - Beam
content: 97 cm
label: Depth - Overall?
content: 38 cm
label: Unknown - Mast
content: 3.12 m
label: Unknown - Boom
content: 2.3 m