Model Canoe, "Itaomacip"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Jun 2005
name: label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: Model of ocean-going boat used for transportation and trade, according to Chisato Dubreuil. Base is carved wood. Side panels attached with rope threaded through holes drilled in the wood. 5 carved wood supports (seats?) wrapped with rope inside. Wood handles near each end. Stern end has decorative medallion made of carved wood, with the tri-swirl motif painted black. Made for the 1999 NMNH exhibit "Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People" using traditional Ainu materials and techniques. See related objects/accessories, incuding sail, masts, rope, rudder and oars, #s E430624-0, E430625-0 and E430626-0.
label: Notes
content: A photo of canoe model maker Masahiro Nomoto beginning work on making the canoe model is illus. Fig. 24.7 p. 186 of Fitzhugh, William W., and Chisato O. Dubreuil. 1999. Ainu: spirit of a northern people. [Washington, D.C.]: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in association with University of Washington Press. Another photo of Masahiro Nomoto is Fig. I.2 p. 9 and Fig. 49.6 p. 365 of same publication.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Aug 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ainu
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2026093
label: USNM Number
content: E430623-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe Model
physicalDescription: label: Length - Canoe
content: 1003 cm
label: Width - Canoe, Amidships
content: 59 cm
label: Height - Canoe, Stern
content: 51 cm
label: Height - Canoe, Amidships, Including Oar Pegs
content: 31 cm
label: Height - Canoe, Bow
content: 41 cm