Bark Canoe, Toy Model
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1875
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Franklin B. Hough
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BIRCHBARK, QUILLWORK, SPRUCE ROOT, WOOD. SMALL MODEL MICMAC CANOE, OF BIRCHBARK SEWN WITH SPRUCE ROOT. SINGLE WOODEN THWART, NOW MISSING. SIDES DECORATED WITH PORCUPINE QUILLS IN THE HALF-CHEVRON-AND-TRIANGLE-MOTIF. ON SIDES IS "MICMAC" IN PENCIL AND "K.B. HOUGH" IN WHITE INK." RUTH H. WHITEHEAD, NOVA SCOTIA MUSEUM, 12/4/1978. DR. STURTEVANT HAS DECIDED THAT THIS CANOE IS MOHAWK, NOT MICMAC. THE INSCRIPTIONS "MICMAC" IN PENCIL & "MONTREAL, CAN." IN WHITE INK GONE OVER WITH BLACK INK HAVE THUS BEEN REMOVED. 5/14/82. AS OF 2/22/84 THE ABOVE INSCRIPTIONS HAVE NOT BEEN REMOVED. RLA."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Franklin County / St. Regis (Akwesasne) Reservation, New York, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Iroquois (Haudenosaunee)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004245
label: USNM Number
content: E18807-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe Model