Umiak Model
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1882
name: label: Collector
content: James T. Brown
label: Donor Name
content: Accession Number Unknown
notes: label: Notes
content: No catalog card found in card file
label: Notes
content: From J.W. Collins Manuscript on Boat Collections in the U.S. National Museum, 1895, p. 793, entry on this artifact: Alaskan Oomiak, Used by the Eskimo of Northern Alaska for transportation, whaling, etc. Model: scale 1 3/4 inches to 1 foot. Alaska, 1882. Collected by J. T. Brown. An open, flat bottom, keeless skin boat, made by covering a wooden frame with seal skins sewed together when green, and then lashed tightly over the frame by lacing passing through holes in the edge of the cover and underneath a ribband on the inside below the gunwales; long, sharp ends; bow curved and raking; stern nearly vertical, with narrow square projection at top, 4 thwarts. Dimensions of oomiak [if it were full size]: Length, 30 feet 3 1/2 inches; width, 6 feet 3 1/2 inches; depth, 2 feet 2 inches.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000000
label: USNM Number
content: E160260-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Umiak Model