Paddles for Norton Sound Type 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: THIS KAYAK WAS ORIGINALLY CATALOGUED AS 129576. IT WAS LATER RECATALOGED AS 160331. AS OF 6-5-2002 IT HAS BEEN RETURNED TO ITS ORIGINAL NUMBER OF 129576. IT IS DESCRIBED PP. 751-2 IN COLLINS MS.. CATALOGUE CARD NOTES THAT KAYAK HAS ONE PADDLE. HOWEVER, MOVE CREW LOCATED TWO LARGE PADDLES, ONE VERY SMALL PADDLE AND HANDLE OF A SINGLE BLADE PADDLE. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE LARGE DOUBLE BLADED PADDLE AND THE SMALL PADDLES DO NOT ACTUALLY BELONG TO 129576 (SOME MAY PERHAPS BELONG TO 160332?), HOWEVER THEY HAVE BEEN KEPT AS E129576 FOR NOW. Per Harvey Golden, 3-5-2008, the end knob tied with string to the large double bladed paddle stored with the kayak may actually go with kayak # E35667 ? Also, the very small paddle is marked in pencil "This paddle belongs to boat Sairy Gamp." The "Sairy Gamp" was a custom-made lightweight canoe designed and built by John Henry Rushton in 1882 for the writer George Washington Sears and it is in the NMAH collections, so, if this information is correct, the paddle may not belong with this kayak at all.
label: Notes
content: Kayak is illustrated and described in detail in Golden, Harvey. 2015. Kayaks of Alaska. Portland, OR: White House Grocery Press: Plate 36, p. 213, and pp. 223 - 224. Single blade paddle is illustrated and described on p. 470 of same publication. Golden identifies kayak and single blade paddle as Unaligmiut. Golden identifies the other large double blade paddle with this # as an East Canadian Inuit paddle.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: St. Michael, Norton Sound, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik, Unaligmiut (Unalirmiut)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 019774
label: USNM Number
content: E129576-1
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Kayak Paddle
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 36 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 61 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 4.5 m