Kayak
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: From card: "With a double paddle, seal dart, 2 bird spears. Refer Collins' MS. p. 736. USNM. Bull. 127, p. 208-9 [sic, this should be p. 207-8]." From U.S. National Museum Bulletin 127, pp. 207-8: "Kaiak. Type used by the Eskimos at Cape Blossom, Alaska, for hunting. A decked, flat bottom, keelless skin canoe, with slightly flaring sides, long, pointed ends, straight, flat deck, except in front of manhole in center, where it is strongly ridged. Manhole set at angle, being much the ighest in front; equipped with one double-bladed paddle; made of sealskins sewn together with sinews when green and stretched over a light frame constructed of driftwood. Dimensions of kaiak. - Length, 17 feet 6 inches; beam, 19 inches; depth, 7 1/2 inches; paddles, 7 feet 9 inches long; manhole, 17 1/2 by 16 1/2 inches."
label: Notes
content: An intramural transfer of specimens document filed in accession file dated February 18, 1965 lists this boat as part of a group of 3 boats transferred from the Division of Transportation to the Division of Ethnology, Department of Anthropology.
label: Notes
content: Kayak is illustrated and described in detail in Golden, Harvey. 2015. Kayaks of Alaska. Portland, OR: White House Grocery Press: Plate 65, p. 318 and pp. 332 - 333. Kayak double-blade paddle is illustrated and described in same publication: p. 498 and Color Plate XXIV, # 1, after p. 274.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Cape Blossom, 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: E129573-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Kayak / Kayak Paddle
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 38 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 54.6 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 5.232 m