Coracle "Parachal"
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1883
name: label: Collector
content: Francis Day
label: Donor Name
content: Accession Number Unknown
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Round basketry framework covered with hide. Used in the rocky torrents of the Bowani [Bhavani] River. In spite of the small size this is called a full-size boat. Collins Ms p. 1259. Refer: Carl Mitman, Cat... Watercraft Collection, U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 127, p. 272, fig. 90."
label: Notes
content: From U.S. National Museum Bulletin # 127, p. 272: "East Indian coracle. Coracles, locally called "parachal," are used in the rocky torrents of Bowani [Bhavani] River, Coimbatore, India. This is an open, circular, saucer-shaped coracle, with sloping sides, made by covering a light frame of split rattan with oilcloth; equipped with small, thin piece of wood for hand paddle. Dimensions of coracle. - Diameter. 2 feet 10 1/2 inches; depth, 7 inches ; paddle, 6 1/2 by 2 1/2 inches. Gift of Surg. Gen. Francis Day." Coracle is shown in figure 90 on p. 273 of publication.
label: Notes
content: An intramural transfer of specimens document filed in accession file 36053 dated February 18, 1965 lists this boat as part of a group of boats transferred from the Division of Transportation to the Division of Ethnology, Department of Anthropology.
label: Notes
content: Records indicate this was a gift in 1883 from Surgeon General Francis Day through G. Brown Goode. It was apparently collected for and exhibited at the International Fisheries Exhibition in London of 1883. P. 87, in the Smithsonian Annual Report for the year 1884, part 2, reports that a collection of boats and boat models were presented to the museum by Surgeon-General Francis Day, F.L.S., Late inspector of Her Majesty's fisheries in India, and commissioner from India to the International Fisheries Exhibition at London, 1883. See also p. 153, # 342 in International Fisheries Exhibition. 1883. Great International Fisheries Exhibition, 1883: official catalogue. London: W. Clowes; http://books.google.com/books?id=EVk9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA153#v=onepage&q&f=false . See also Plate II, # 14, after p. 59 in Day, Francis. 1883. Indian fish and fishing. London: W. Clowes and Sons. (Handbook International Fisheries Exhibition, London 1883), for an illustration of what may be this object.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Feb 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu (Madras), India, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Indian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000000
label: USNM Number
content: E160357-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Coracle