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 one ice scoop. Collin's MS. p. 734. Refer: BAE 18th An. Rep. Pt. 1, p. 220, Pl. LXXIX-5."
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: From U.S. National Museum Bulletin 127, p. 207: "Kaiak. Type used by Eskimos at Cape Espenberg, Alaska. A decked, round-bottom keelless skin canoe, with flaring sides, sharp-pointed bow, sharp raking stern; high-ridged deck sloping off suddenly at stern; manhole near center. Dimensions of kaiak. - Length, 14 feet 4 inches; beam, 24 inches; depth, 13 inches; longitudinal diameter of manhole, 23 inches; width, 16 1/2 inches."
label: Notes
content: Kayak illustrated and described in detail in Golden, Harvey. 2015. Kayaks of Alaska. Portland, OR: White House Grocery Press: Plate 56, p. 264 and pp. 293 - 294.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Cape Espenberg, 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: E129575-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Kayak
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 36 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 61 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 36.2 cm