Sled
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Canoe-shaped, keeled in structure, back roughly hemispheric, 4 strips of wood parallel to single runner on each side of same, with 7 transverse strips of wood secured to others by treenails, fragment of leather line still attached to runner at front. Ref. cat. no. 74,534 Transferred to the Department of Cultural History 4-4-73. Transferred back to Dept. of Anthropology 2/3/82."
label: Notes
content: A photo that includes what appears to be this sled on display at the Smithsonian in 1880 (below and to the right of the Sami mannequin with sled and reindeer) is in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives: Photo ID: SIA Acc. 11-006 [MAH-4492], SIA Acc. 11-006, Box 014 - United States National Museum. Division of Graphic Arts, Photographic Collection, 1860-1960, Smithsonian Institution Archives, https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_391403 . At the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, there was a Swedish mannequin group display that included a stuffed reindeer pulling a sled with a mannequin seated in it. The mannequins are in Swedish winter clothing. There is a photo in the Free Library of Philadelphia collections that shows the Swedish group and is available online. The sled in the photo is only partially visible, but (very very speculatively) it somewhat resembles ET1191??: Centennial Photographic Co.. [Reindeer-Swedish sec., M.B.]. Stereoviews. Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphia, PA. https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/2043. (accessed Mar 24, 2025)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Mar 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Lapland (Sápmi), Finland (not certain) / Norway (not certain) / Sweden (not certain) / Russia (not certain), Europe
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sámi (Saami) (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET1191-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sled
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 61 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 61 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 213 cm