Model Canoe With Figurehead And Paddles
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. John B. White
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. John B. White
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "21594-5. #21595: ALASKAN DUGOUT CANOE. IN FAIR ORDER. ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 33, FIG. 170, P. 296. NEG. NO. 2,401. LOANED TO THE S.I. CENTENNIAL COMM. 7-9-75 (#21595). LOANED RETURNED MAR 22 1990. " FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "SMALL FAMILY OR SUMMER CANOE. FOR FISHING, HUNTING, ETC. ORNAMENTED WITH TOTEMIC DESIGNS. THIS ORNAMENTATION WAS FORMERLY PUT ON ALL CANOES, BUT IS AT PRESENT SEEN ONLY ON MODELS. TLINKIT INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN STOCK), SITKA, ALASKA. 21,595. COLLECTED BY DR. J. B. WHITE, U. S. A."
label: Notes
content: In 2008, the canoe bow/prow figurehead was missing from this canoe model. A figure found in storage, which had been called ET9989-0, appears to match the photo of the figure as shown in Pl. 33, Fig. 170, p. 296 of USNM 1888 AR, and so it has been given number E21595. Upon close examination, it was found to have the number 21595 written on it, thus confirming the identification.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. Canoe includes 4 paddles and figurehead in position on bow on loan.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=534 , retrieved 12-30-2011: Canoe model Large "war canoes" with projecting bows and high sterns were up to sixty feet long, with room for many passengers and thousands of pounds of gear and supplies. They served for coastal travel, trade, war, and relocation to seasonal camps. Haida men carved the canoes from tall cedar trees that grow in the Queen Charlotte Islands and traded them to northern neighbors. Elder Clarence Jackson said, "It was a sign of wealth when you had a Haida canoe." They were painted with clan crests – on this model, a bear on the bow and a bird figure on the stern.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 6
place: label: Place
content: Baranof Island / Sitka, Alexander Archipelago, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004869
label: USNM Number
content: E21595-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe Model / Paddle Model
physicalDescription: label: Length - Canoe Model
content: 78 cm