Model, Birchbark Canoe
name: label: Collector
content: Robert Bell
label: Donor Name
content: Accession Number Unknown
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "REMARKS: [Type] USED ON GASPE BAY. PEOPLE: MICMAC* INDIANS. *MR. E. LAPPAN ?ROBRIDY (? A VISITOR) [sic, may be E. Tappan Adney ?] SAID THIS WAS A PASSAMAQUODDY R. [I.?] TYPE. REFER: COLLINS' MS. P. 868." FROM SECOND CARD: "SCALE: 2 1/4"-1'. "BUILT AND USED BY THE MICMAC INDIANS OF LOWER CANADA. USED IN FISHING, HUNTING, ETC. AN OPEN, ROUND BOTTOM, SHARP-ENDED CANOE, WITH RECURVED SHEER; 5 GUNWALE SUPPORTS OR THWARTS; MADE BY COVERING A LIGHT WOODEN FRAME WITH BREADTHS OF BIRCHBARK SEWN TOGETHER WITH ROOT FIBRE; ALSO SEWN AT ENDS TO GUNWALES WITH SAME MATERIAL; SEAMS COVERED WITH PITCH; WOODEN STRIP NAILED TO TOP OF GUNWALES TO PROTECT FIBRE SEIZINGS FROM WEAR. ILLUS. IN BULL 127, USNM: FIG. 64, P. 216."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Jul 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Eastern, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Micmac (Mi'kmaq) (?)
label: Culture
content: Passamaquoddy (Peskotomuhkati) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000000
label: USNM Number
content: E55814-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe Model