Boat Model, "Flying Proa"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Midshipman Wilkes Henry
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "A WOODEN KEELED VESSEL, HIGH POOP BACK UNDER WHICH IS THE CABIN. CARRIES TWO SQUARE SAILS SET ON SLIM BAMBOO MASTS. MODEL IS PAINTED BLACK BELOW AND TOP STRIPED YELLOW, RED, AND GREEN. THIS IS THE TYPE OF VESSEL USED BY THE MALAYS TO ATTACK BECALMED VESSELS. REFER TO COLLINS, MS. PAGE 1204." FROM CARD: "REFER: COLLINS' M.S. P. 1204. USNM. BULL. 127, P. 251-3, FIG. 81."
label: Notes
content: One card calls this a "Model of piratical prahu." The second calls it "Boat model, "Flying Proa, Malay, East Indian Archipelaog, ? Sulu arch. P.I."."" Peale catalogue entry on this artifact calls it a model of "a proa, or armed vessel of the Malay Islands, obtained at Singapore." The Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists the collector for E3892 as "W. Henry, USN", which would be Wilkes Henry, the nephew of Charles Wilkes. Later cataloguers listed Wilkes Henry on the catalogue cards as the collector for E3892-3895, but the ledger book only lists him for E3892.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sulu Islands, Philippines
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: (?)
label: Culture
content: Malay (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3895-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Boat Model