Model Of Canoe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1863
name: label: Collector
content: Bernard R. Ross
label: Donor Name
content: Mr. Robert Kennicott
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "OLD CAT. BOOK SAYS: (FOR 858-9) "THESE CANOES ARE MADE OF BIRCHBARK SEWED WITH ROOTS OF LARCH OR SPRUCE (WA TAP) AND THE SEAMS LAYED OVER WITH GUM OF SPRUCE...(FOR 858): MODEL OF CANOE OF CHIPEWAYAN INDIANS OF ATHABASCA LAKE AND SOUTH SIDE OF GREAT SLAVE LAKE." SEE ALSO CARD FOR 859. MFL 1/23/84." FROM CARD: "*IDENTIFIED AS "PROBABLY SLAVE" BY CORNELIUS OSGOOD, SEPT. 1970, SOLELY ON THE BASIS OF INDEX ENTRY "GREAT SLAVE LAKE, B. R. ROSS." REMOVED 3/14/99 BY PROF MASON FROM BOAT HALL TO CATLIN HALL." Formerly on exhibit in NHB Hall 9, case 10, where it was identified as "Canoe with recurved prow, Chipewyan."
label: Notes
content: Ledger book identifies this as from Indians of Great Slave Lake, and further notes "these canoes are made of birchbark sewed with roots of larch or spruce (wa tap) and the seams layed over with gum of spruce, " and "model of canoe of Chipewyan Indians of Athabasca Lake and south side of Gt. Slave L."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Sep 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Slavey (Slave, Dene)
label: Culture
content: Chipewyan (Denesoline, Denesuline, Dene)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000177
label: USNM Number
content: E858-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe Model