Oars For Canoe Model
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Jun 2005
name: label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: 10 wooden poles. Each has hole drilled through one end (appears to attach to pegs on the boat, E430623-0). Goes with canoe (E430623-0). Made for the 1999 NMNH exhibit "Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People" using traditional Ainu materials and techniques.
label: Notes
content: A photo of canoe maker Masahiro Nomoto beginning work on making the canoe model E430623 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: 24 Jan 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 10
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: E430626-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe Model Oar
physicalDescription: label: Length - One Oar
content: 139 cm