Umiak
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Nov 1887
label: Collection Date
content: 1887
name: label: Collector
content: Capt. Michael A. Healy
label: Donor Name
content: U. S. Revenue-Marine
notes: label: Notes
content: Transferred from Division of Engineering 1947. Formerly catalogued as number E129578. From card (made in 1947): Size "16'6" L., 3'4" W. Skin boat over a wood frame. Has 2 floats, 1 double paddle, 3 small paddles. Sept. 1964 the boat is in very bad condition, frame had collapsed. This was originally called a "miniature", by which it was probably meant just not full size though this is a usable boat." From card for 129578: "Though the word miniature is entered in the catalog book [to describe this umiak] it would appear that this is incorrect, when the measurements are considered. With 3 floats, 3 small paddles, 1 double paddle. Later given no. 160,332."
label: Notes
content: See pp. 791-2 in Collins Boat Ms..
label: Notes
content: This is probably the Northern Alaska umiak referred to on p. 183, second to last paragraph, of 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). It is noted there that this type of small umiak is used for walrus hunting, and "... is also employed in fishing and is rather widely used as a passage boat for short voyages along shore. These craft, propelled by paddles, are primarily fast, handy hunting canoes rather than boats for migration or cargo-carrying. For this reason they are quite sharp-ended and shallow."
label: Notes
content: Double blade paddle is identified as a kayak paddle and is illustrated and described in detail on p. 499 in Golden, Harvey. 2015. Kayaks of Alaska. Portland, OR: White House Grocery Press.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 6
place: label: Place
content: Point Hope, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inupiaq
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 019774
label: USNM Number
content: E160332-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Umiak / Umiak Paddle / Kayak Paddle